Traveling Through The Dark, By William Stafford

Traveling through the dark
William Stafford is the author of this eerie poem called Traveling through the dark. there is a lot of different claims to this one poem but the best 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 an older man faced with a hard decision. This decision is showed every day. William Stafford wanted this messaged of Sometimes life will be a dark narrow road, but at every turn there are different obstacles to face head on. How is this man an example of everyday life situations? Sometimes life will give you hard decisions to make, but technology will win every time.
With technology being the rooted to all evil besides money,
This poem uses the word ‘dark’ as something that can be uses as how people feel when something curl is about take place. In the same sentence, the older man in the poem founded a dead deer on the side of the road. As well as many, people would just push this over into the river but this poem point something different. In the next stanza, it states “it is usually best to roll them into the canyon…”. This type of thinking is the worst kind to have. I believe William Stafford wanted people to learn that this mentality will kill nature but save technology. Extinction is starting to become increasingly relevant to society. When you must swerve from something, it can cause an accident. In the poem, it trying to say the percentage of deer’s deaths are higher in this time. William Stafford broke it down to where you can understand that it is cause and effect. The cause of the dead deer in the road could affect drivers form driving on that road. This could also put deer’s in extinction. This all goes back to the decision of the character in the poem. He must think of all things, but he chose the car instead of the unborn fawn. While the man
He describes the car as purring like a cat. When cats purr, they are happy or having pleasure. The car can be expressing how the older man is happy or have pleasure with doing this horrible deed. Many people are fighting for the rights of animals everywhere. Others are either not caring nor understanding that without the environment, we will not have many benefits that come from the wilderness. Dears are a part of the wildness just like bears, tigers, and many others. The use of technology is taking over the mindset of humans. The sound of the engine and the exhaust from the car is devastating if that ends, because of the dead deer. The word listen is extremely important in this poem. The man listened not only to myself but to others around him. What is the most important thing to save the fawn or your cars? This the reason he hesitated to push the deer over into the