Read this excerpt from "the legend."

there's a rembrandt glow on his face,
a triangle of orange in the hollow of his cheek
as a last flash of sunset
blazes the storefronts and lit windows of the street.

in these lines, the allusion to the great seventeenth-century portrait painter rembrandt highlights the theme

“youth is the best time of life.”
“people are nothing next to nature.”
“individual lives are important.”
“our lives depend on the sun.”