reading Traveling through the Dark‚ the author has an intimate conversation with the reader‚ sharing a personal experience. This allows Stafford to draw the reader deep into thought about what is really happening within the poem. He accomplishes this form of speaking with his audience through free verse with no pattern or structure to the poem. Nevertheless‚ Stafford creates end rhymes and internal rhymes with assonance and consonance. For example‚ in every second and fourth line of each stanza‚ “road”
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The poem by William Stafford‚ “Traveling Through the Dark” presents readers with an uncomfortable and rather grim instance of the intersection of the natural world and that of man. Technology‚ in this case cars and the man-made road‚ are seen as something invasive and harmful in this poem. In order to convey the meaning of the poem “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford uses a conversational style to communicate the theme in the poem of the role of technology in modern life and‚ more importantly
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philosophy‚ which is a belief that man is the supreme 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
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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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on the peaceful morning—signifying that nature ant he speaker are one in the same with no troubles (Stafford 8). In Bishop’s poem‚ the questions come from the personified bird and dog‚ and
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literature cover a wide variety of topics ranging from the mentally disabled to technology’s effect on nature to the implications of weapons of mass destruction. “Average Waves in Unprotected Waters” by Anne Tyler‚ “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford‚ and Hiroshima by John Hersey discusses all three of the aforementioned topics respectively. Key factors of these social protest texts are the inclusion of a set of characteristics that act as the deliverers of the main theme in a text of this type
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Dexter Gordon was a Jazz saxophonist. He was born February 27‚ 1923 in Los Angeles California. Many people know Mr. Gordon because of bebop. This style of play is what brought him fame. Gordon played amongst many jazz greats like Charlie Parker‚ Charles Mingus‚ and Buddy Collette to name a few. Gordon started to play at the age of 13. His first instrument was the clarinet but quickly after he decided to take up the tenor saxophone at the age of 17. Music was always popular around the Gordon household
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job of illustrating the function of the animal in "Traveling Through the Dark." The deer is dead on the side of the road from a hit and run and the speaker wants to be respectful of the deer. The speaker is about to "roll them into the canyon" (3‚ Stafford)‚ when he realizes that the deer is pregnant. This causes the speaker to rethink the importance of life while standing there in the dark. The speaker
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loans after college. The most common type of student loan is a Stafford loan. These are loans that are available in both subsidized and unsubsidized forms. For the subsidized loan‚ federal government pays the interest while a student is in school‚ during grace periods‚ and deferment periods. Unsubsidized loans on the other hand make the student responsible for paying interest during the mentioned periods. If the interest of the Stafford loan isn’t paid while a student was in school‚ the loan balance
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different types of advertising‚ such as informative‚ persuasive‚ comparative‚ and defensive. The following are examples of each of type. Informative Advertising Informative advertising is defined as “advertising that simply informs” (Miller & Stafford‚ 2004)‚ such as the information of the product being carried out in an informative matter. For example‚ Dell computers advertise on their flyers or ads pertinent information about key features such as its price‚ specifications‚ and availability
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