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.”