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

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.

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