1. What are the literal and figurative meanings of the word “swerving” as used in the poem?
The setting of the poem tells us that he is traveling on a mountainous road at night in a car. Where he found a dead doe in the middle of the road. who has been dead probably by hitting from another car? But now he is in a position that he must do something about it because it may cause another accident on the same road. So he sees the best option to put this doe into the canyon by swerving it. The figurative meaning could be the road is life and holding death so close to life is dangerous. Putting it away and on the side would make way for the living beings to pass safely.
2. How can the narrator’s actions be seen as a metaphor for life and the different perspectives that people can have about similar experiences? …show more content…
His actions are continuous as he found the doe dead and he hesitated to make a sound decision but in the end, make a difficult choice which is a sad outcome but a real one. We can take a look at this sad poem as life is continuous and it doesn't stop. Even when we faced a death it must go on for self and other people.
3. Why is it significant that the speaker “hesitated”?
As the traveler was preparing the body of the doe to put it into the canyon, then the traveler realizes that there is baby deer is in the mother’s belly, and he has to make a decision that could make a difference. But the more the thought of it, this does become a sad reality of life. It is impossible to make a sound decision on a dark road in a night to save a new life in which it is most probably bound to fail without the love of a mother. So he swerves the doe into the canyon and moved on.
4. Why does the speaker feel that the “wilderness [is listening]” and watching his actions? What immediate and lasting effects does this seem to have on
The setting of the poem tells us that he is traveling on a mountainous road at night in a car. Where he found a dead doe in the middle of the road. who has been dead probably by hitting from another car? But now he is in a position that he must do something about it because it may cause another accident on the same road. So he sees the best option to put this doe into the canyon by swerving it. The figurative meaning could be the road is life and holding death so close to life is dangerous. Putting it away and on the side would make way for the living beings to pass safely.
2. How can the narrator’s actions be seen as a metaphor for life and the different perspectives that people can have about similar experiences? …show more content…
His actions are continuous as he found the doe dead and he hesitated to make a sound decision but in the end, make a difficult choice which is a sad outcome but a real one. We can take a look at this sad poem as life is continuous and it doesn't stop. Even when we faced a death it must go on for self and other people.
3. Why is it significant that the speaker “hesitated”?
As the traveler was preparing the body of the doe to put it into the canyon, then the traveler realizes that there is baby deer is in the mother’s belly, and he has to make a decision that could make a difference. But the more the thought of it, this does become a sad reality of life. It is impossible to make a sound decision on a dark road in a night to save a new life in which it is most probably bound to fail without the love of a mother. So he swerves the doe into the canyon and moved on.
4. Why does the speaker feel that the “wilderness [is listening]” and watching his actions? What immediate and lasting effects does this seem to have on