Change is an inevitable aspect of life it helps shape who we are and who we want to be leading us to significant realization through ones mental, physical, emotional and physical self. Change surrounds our daily lives represented through contextual and textual components shaping and transforming the present to the future. This is represent in the poem “Father and Child” by Gwen Harwood through the binary opposition of the beginning and end of life and the transformation of innocence. “In the park” another poem of Gwen Harwood conveys the loss and gain through change. The contrast of the past to the present represents change through the birth of new life has metaphorically taken hers away. Change can effect all components of life as conveyed in the song “Big Yellow Taxi” by which highlights humanities impacts and negative future changes placed on the environment. Through these three texts combined the inevitability of change is present not only through physical but mental stages of life. The aspects of change seen within the poem “Father and child” both highlight the negativity and positivity of change and its inevitability in life through the duality of the diptych. The poems explore the notions of change through life and death, innocence and maturity and youth and age. The catalyst for change is time conveyed through the recurring image of sunrise and sunset. The additional guilt of the young persona in part 1 “barn owl” reveals the loss of innocence and its inevitability in growth. This evokes the shift of innocence from father to child through the experiences of death. In the fathers authoritarian tone “end what you have begun” allowing the reflection of her cruelty “mirror my cruelty” conveying the harsh brutality of life and the seriousness in the sense of maturity she is trying to challenge. Part 1 “Barn owl” juxtaposes part 2 “Nightfall” “blessed by the sun” “sunset exalts its known”