Travelling Through The Dark Analysis

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he two poems, “Travelling through the Dark” by William E. Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, both share similar thought involving the relationship between humans and nature.

Although the poems have different plots, settings, and characters, they both develop a common theme of a huge conflict in the way people interact with their surroundings. In both poems, the protagonist is forced to make a decision involving the life or death

In “Woodchucks”, the author describes a scenario in which her pacifist self comes face to face with a family of woodchucks and kills them all.

In “Travelling through the Dark”, the narrator comes across a pregnant deer that was hit by a car, lying in the middle of the road, and wonders about the unfair

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