Comparison Of Traveling Through The Dark 'And The Groundhog'

The cycle of life comes with death. Things around the world are born then erodes into the ground. Death is unavoidable in life and can be sometimes be troublesome and may come to a surprise for some. In both “Traveling Through the Dark” and “The Groundhog” showcase death is something that needs to be accepted and move on through tone, literary figures and theme.

In “Traveling Through the Dark”, the setting sets the tone for rest of the story. It gives off a really dark mood that is hard to ignore. In the very first two lines, it states it is during a night time in the forest while the driver and the deer are on the edge. The reader from this associates with a horror film. The darkness makes the car and the dead dear the main focus. This is crucial because if the story was not during the night but the daytime, a lot of the implication of loneliness and sadness would not show. It would reveal too much of the surroundings like the trees mountains and the animals. But in the darkness, the eerie “glow of the tail-light” (line 5) would not have a lot of emotions and the death of the deer would not have been so intense. All sorts of emotions are brought out because of the setting.

Throughout the story, metaphors are cast down on the story carefully and create great imagination and deeper meaning. The darkness, the narrow road,
This feeling from the darkness follows throughout the poem. This is essential on how it creates a dark mood around what it is confronted with. When the deer is found in the dark it makes the death even more meaningful and intense. When it is between the person thought and death it makes it even more meaningful and intense. When the red light covers the dear it makes it even more meaningful and intense. The thing with this red light is that it holds the sadness and the past of living or in this case the car. It is very saddening and gives the driver a moment to think of his next course of