1. In many of his poems, Frank O’Hara constantly refers to change and time, that everything changes whether it is slight of massive. People, he claims, change all the time including himself which he gives readers insight to in the poem “ A Step Away From Them.” There he explains that the speaker has changed the way he sees the world due to the deaths of close friends. His poems were greatly inspired by music and paintings because he believed that “art can take us out of time”. One painter whose work he adored was Jackson Pollock. O’Hara later published a book on Jackson Pollock after his death. Along with this, O’Hara expressed his thoughts that emotions never last very long, particularly love. In his poem “Animals” the speaker states that
