What is the significance of the season of the year in relation to the poet's thoughts on war and technology?

If the gun symbolizes violence and war, then the trees, flowers, and insects the speaker spots in a nearby garden symbolize the opposite—spring, rebirth and interconnectedness. Figurative language imbues these elements of the natural world with purpose, consciousness, and life, in contrast to the inanimate coldness of the gun. Through descriptions of the natural world, Reed suggests that these cycles of rebirth can be brutal and antagonistic in their own ways. For instance, bees "are assaulting and fumbling the flowers." Yet while the violence of war both causes death and necessitates a kind of emotionally numb death-in-life, the violence of nature still is ultimately centered around the perpetuation of life and vibrancy, and the violence that does exist in nature is visible, rather than suppressed.