Change the indefinable concept, which shapes our moral beliefs and selves through the positive and negative choices we make is an apparent theme in this poem. The Door has increased the responders understanding of change by expressing the amount of energy that the process consumes. It conveys the idea that change is a lonely tedious path that entirely encompasses us but still has the beauty, life and love to mould us into unique individuals. Holub's use of literary devices such as repetition, accumulation and metaphors creatively express this inimitable theme to the responder.

Change is a constant molding action that spontaneously thrives within us. The use of accumulation within the poem clearly expresses to the responder of the alteration that occurs with change. Those tedious, testing steps of loneliness and isolation that result in light, warmth and brightness. "Go and open the door even if there is only...