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... and dangerously overwhelming. Harwood's juxtaposition of the hard, lifeless substances "marble and granite" with the living and growing "quick of autumn grasses" serves as a metaphor for the transience of life and the finality death; as "quick" life is parted by death in the same way as the grass is by the graves. Emphasis on the speaker ... ...
... race no longer matter; your individuality lost. The repetitive reference to "them" adds to the lack of individuality and the continual building quantity of the casualties a war has. The "sorrowful quick figures", the "coasts (that) swing upwards" and the "knuckled hills" all imply a greater presence within the poem, possibly of a God who takes the soldiers "high high and higher" away from ... ...
... is shown through the shift from first person in "Barn Owl" to the use of second person in "Nightfall". The change of values is shown through the words "a child once quick to mischief, grow to learn what sorrows in the end, no word, no tears can mend". This shows the speaker now valuing other people and recognising the wisdom of age ... ...
... follow the same pattern that nature does, that pattern is a lack of although in both nature and Sunflower Sutra items still seem to fall into place. Shorter lines represent short quick concise thoughts and long breathy paragraphs represent an idea much longer and more complicated. For instance, " Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then" is ... ...
