Traveling through the dark

Traveling through the dark 

Poems

The poem travelling to the dark has been composed by William Stafford. The poem is ironical according to the poem the poet was a traveler. He was driving along the Wilson River in the dark night on the way he found a dead doe which was recently killed. When the poet touched the dead doe. He know to know that a living fawn in its belly. There was hope to be born the baby there. It was about to die. The poet’s heart filled with pity so he couldn’t do anything he also though as out his responsibility but his emotions were greater than his responsibility. He was dilemma at last he threw dead doe out of the road to cline the invorment. On a dark night, the narrator was driving his car on Wilson River road. At the edge of the river he found a dead deer. His common sense told him to roll that deer into the gorge because the road was narrow and a slight carelessness might call for more accidents. He stopped his car and went near to it. It was a doe and had been dead. But when he dragged it he found that it was pregnant. 

When he observed its belly closely, he sensed that the fawn inside it must be alive. But he also knew that it could not be born. The tragic fate of the fawn made him emotional. It was difficult for him to throw the body into the gorge because it would kill the baby instantly. 

His dilemma and inactness blocked the street. He listened the people getting restless as everybody was in hurry to go. They immediately wanted the road to be opened. The narrator thought very deeply and concluded that it wasn’t practical to leave the dead body of the doe on the street. It could make more accidents. Therefore, he threw it into the gorge and chose to perform his duty.