Stafford’s “Traveling through the Dark” and Snodgrass 's "Driving Late at Night" are the same poem written by two different people but have a whole different felt to one another. Stafford’s poem gives a dark, eerie feeling while Snodgrass’s has the same effect but it doesn’t feel as dark and eerie due to the lack of detail throughout. To summarize Stafford’s whole poem would be a man is driving alongside a mountain on night when he comes across a dead dear. Therefore he decides to push the deer off the side of the road to prevent any accidents. Unfortunately, as he does so they discover that the dear was pregnant while the fawn inside is still alive. The driver thinks about what to do with this animal; save the fawns life or just kill it completely
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In Stafford’s poem, there is some form of description on every line throughout the whole poem compared to Snodgrass’s poem, which there is a lack of detail even though there is some. For example, line five in stanza two of Stafford’s poem, he states, “By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car…” There is a good amount of detail in just that line compared to Snodgrass’s line five in stanza two. In Snodgrass’s poem he states, “In the darkness I walked back of the car…” to me it seems that Snodgrass has presented no detail description of his walk to examine the recently injured doe. Along with the difference in detail between the two poems, the mood between the two makes Stafford’s poem better than …show more content…
To me, Snodgrass doesn’t seem interested in the poem at all. When referring to the dark mood that “Traveling through the Dark” presents, it comes along with the detail that was present in the poem as well as my paragraph above. Also, Snodgrass made it seem that this encounter with this dead, pregnant doe has happened before and he knows what exactly do with it. To back this up, in Snodgrass’s poem he said, “On that steep road I took just long enough to decide” when he used the words ‘long enough decide’ I hear a lack of connection and remorse for the doe. On the other hand, Stafford wrote “Beside that mountain road I hesitated.” Making it seemed like he personally cared for the pregnant doe like it was his own son/daughter on the life bed in a hospital. When talking about tone, imagery is often related to
In Stafford’s poem, there is some form of description on every line throughout the whole poem compared to Snodgrass’s poem, which there is a lack of detail even though there is some. For example, line five in stanza two of Stafford’s poem, he states, “By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car…” There is a good amount of detail in just that line compared to Snodgrass’s line five in stanza two. In Snodgrass’s poem he states, “In the darkness I walked back of the car…” to me it seems that Snodgrass has presented no detail description of his walk to examine the recently injured doe. Along with the difference in detail between the two poems, the mood between the two makes Stafford’s poem better than …show more content…
To me, Snodgrass doesn’t seem interested in the poem at all. When referring to the dark mood that “Traveling through the Dark” presents, it comes along with the detail that was present in the poem as well as my paragraph above. Also, Snodgrass made it seem that this encounter with this dead, pregnant doe has happened before and he knows what exactly do with it. To back this up, in Snodgrass’s poem he said, “On that steep road I took just long enough to decide” when he used the words ‘long enough decide’ I hear a lack of connection and remorse for the doe. On the other hand, Stafford wrote “Beside that mountain road I hesitated.” Making it seemed like he personally cared for the pregnant doe like it was his own son/daughter on the life bed in a hospital. When talking about tone, imagery is often related to