One of the significant aspects of "changing self" covered in Harwood's poems is the process in which, a child's innocent mind, like a blank page, is inked and tainted by some experience. Their hopes, dreams, beliefs, founded on their naive perspective of life, and the way the young restyle themselves consciously or subconsciously as they make new discoveries are all explored.

In the poem The Glass Jar we witness the heart-

bundle of stuff that dropped, and dribbled through loose straw

Her father comes to her side and makes her carry the responsibility she had assumed to the end by asking her to kill the animal.

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