A quick analyis of the play "Traveling throught the Dark" by William Stafford

The poem I chose is "Traveling Through the Dark" by William Safford. The first line of the poem sets the scene, as do most poems. The narrator has been confronted with a dilemma: Should he move the object out of is way (in this case, a deer on the side of the road)? He also indicates what course is usually taken, as this would be better for others. The deer he found at night time …

…pushed the doe and her unborn fawn over the edge into the river. The poet's word order was appropriate. The words made sense the way they were written. The imagery he created ("silence of the wilderness") gives the reader the impression of how alone the narrator is in the story, in the darkness, in the quiet, with nothing around him but this dead deer and the cold loneliness he must have felt from his decision.