... me alive" we realise the cause of this self change has been motherhood. Harwood Subtly suggests although motherhood can be a fulfilling experience, the lady in the poem confronts the task with a degree of negativeness causing a negative result of change. By contrasting the self-change of both characters in the scene, the lady ... the door" the urgency of seizing the moment is presented suggesting that the change of self must be done before it is to late. The speaker of the poem suggests that any change is a positive one through the constant reinforcement of positive visual imagery "a tre...

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