Poetry is a very powerful mechanism through which writers can tell their readers something about themselves or the world around them. The language within “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin display the speakers’ psychology and what sort of relationships they have with the animals and their deaths in their respective works. Despite being similar in a few aspects‚ these two works are very different. The most obvious similarity between the two works is
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both “Traveling through the Dark‚” written by William Stafford‚ and “Woodchucks”‚ written by Maxin Kumin‚ the authors discuss about interventions of human beings to animals. Even though the two poems are different in the use of irony‚ the tone and the sentence structure‚ they illustrate similar relationships between humans and animals that humans are superior to animals. “Traveling through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” use different irony to represent their relationships
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on a literal level. Nonetheless‚ after analyzing the purpose‚ tone‚ word choice‚ and figures of speech and how they simultaneously work together‚ the reader is hit with a whole new perception of the poem. William Stafford’s "Traveling through the Dark" holds this characteristic. The poem is about a man driving on a narrow road at night and his internal conflict triggered by an encounter with a dead deer along the road. He immediately leaves his car and walks toward the deer with
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Now days‚ it is hard to connect or be with the nature‚ especially if you live in a city. While there are people that interact with the nature every day because of their rural location. The short poem “Traveling through the Dark” by William Stafford‚ is about a person that encounter a dead deer in the road in the middle of the night. In the story‚ the narrator have to decide if he would save the unborn deer or just throw the mom deer to the river to save other people that might suffer an accident
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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
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Professor Sargent Poetry 165W December 18‚ 2009 {draw:frame} “Traveling Through the Dark”: William Stafford In the poem‚ “Traveling Through the Dark”‚ William Stafford uses alliteration‚ imagery and natural speech in order to convey the disheartening emotions that come with being forced to make a life threatening decision. He orders the images in his tale to allow our minds and emotions with his as he works his way through making a choice; man or nature. The poem lacks a regular meter making
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Traveling through the dark William Stafford is the author of this eerie poem called Traveling Through The Dark. several claims have been made to this one poem‚ but the leading one is the claim about technology and mankind. The conflict is technology is taking over the mindset of humans. The character in the poem is a character faced with a hard decision. This settlement is shown every day. William Stafford wanted this message of Sometimes life will be a dark narrow road‚ but at every turn there
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Cristiana Sandigo English 210 MWF: 11:00 Essay #2 Man’s New Toy In William Stafford’s poem “Traveling through the Dark‚” the persona drives alone at night on an isolated mountain road and happens to encounters a dead deer. As depicted in the poem‚ this anonymous persona is most likely a man since he managed to carry a 200-pound dead deer away from the road. Moreover‚ the chances of a woman wandering around an isolated mountain by
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entity in the cosmos and the natural world should be defined in terms of their morals and knowledge. Society has forgotten that without nature‚ mankind cannot and will not thrive or survive William Stafford relates these opposing ideas in poetic form through a man’s solitary conflict to respond to a tragic occurrence that he encounters. The poet conveys the struggle that happens when anthropocentric ideas conflict with biocentrism or the belief that man is in fact equal to the importance of nature.
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Wouldn’t it be better to sacrifice one life rather than risk the lives of unsuspecting drivers? It’s a seemingly easy question to answer‚ however in William Stafford’s poem “Traveling Through The Dark‚” the speaker is faced with the dilemma. When driving on down road‚ the speaker is confronted with a deceased pregnant doe lying in the road‚ and has to make the crucial decision about salvaging the fawn‚ alive within the doe. Although the speaker’s actions may appear cruel to some readers‚ the speaker
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