Traveling Through the Dark: Summary and Critical Analysis

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the side and what he felt when he touched her side. But in the fourth stanza he does not say anything about the deer. He describes the car and her activities. There is a break in the narrative. It is quite significant in the poem because it gives a clear contrast between the animal and the machine. The animal with a life inside is dead, but the car looks life-like. Her fumes are warm whereas the doe is cold and stiffened. The last two lines of the poem complete both types of action: mental and physical. As he thinks hard on behalf of the nature lovers, he comes to the conclusion that the right place for the doe is the river. Then he throws the dead body into the river. The last two lines of the poem try to solve the problem of environmental damage. Instead of worrying about the problem, one has to accept the things as they are. Or the poet may be satirizing that the so-called nature-lovers are responsible for the environmental damage. In this poem Stafford presents a ...

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