'Traveling Through The Dark' By William Stafford
Traveling through the dark
William Stafford is the author of this eerie poem called Traveling Through The Dark. several claims have been made to this one poem, but the leading one is the claim about technology and mankind. The conflict is technology is taking over the mindset of humans. The character in the poem is a character faced with a hard decision. This settlement is shown every day. William Stafford wanted this message of Sometimes life will be a dark narrow road, but at every turn there are different obstacles to face head on. The question to pounder here is How does this character a comparison to humans with technology? Sometimes life will give you hard decisions to make, but technology will win every time.
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The dean of the chapel at Duke University stated “Traveling Through The Dark” is a truthful memoir of a violent confrontation between modern humanity and its machines and a doe and her “still waiting to be born” fawn.” He wants to make it clear that this is not another old poem, but a poem with a strong underlining message. “The moment is a tragedy, and, in my experience, Americans have few spiritual resources for thinking too much about the truly tragic.” (Willison) Many people are not thinking about the true underlining message that is seen here. Technology is taking over how seeing things in nature an twisting it into not seeing for what it is. “the auto becomes a leering, godlike, silent image of the clash between nature and technology.” (Willimon) Mr. Willison is stating that this poem tells the actions of how humans see the value between nature and technology. The value of technology is starting to become more less important to humans than nature. The character described his car like a cat. He valued his car more than saving an unborn fawn. This can cause the destruction of deer’s in the ecosystem. “the wilderness listens, waits and watches while the driver thinks hard for us and then resumes his journey to nowhere, this moment of regret “my only swerving”. Truly, the whole creation groans in travail for a redemption beyond the abilities of us and our machines.” (Willimon,
William Stafford is the author of this eerie poem called Traveling Through The Dark. several claims have been made to this one poem, but the leading one is the claim about technology and mankind. The conflict is technology is taking over the mindset of humans. The character in the poem is a character faced with a hard decision. This settlement is shown every day. William Stafford wanted this message of Sometimes life will be a dark narrow road, but at every turn there are different obstacles to face head on. The question to pounder here is How does this character a comparison to humans with technology? Sometimes life will give you hard decisions to make, but technology will win every time.
With technology being …show more content…
The dean of the chapel at Duke University stated “Traveling Through The Dark” is a truthful memoir of a violent confrontation between modern humanity and its machines and a doe and her “still waiting to be born” fawn.” He wants to make it clear that this is not another old poem, but a poem with a strong underlining message. “The moment is a tragedy, and, in my experience, Americans have few spiritual resources for thinking too much about the truly tragic.” (Willison) Many people are not thinking about the true underlining message that is seen here. Technology is taking over how seeing things in nature an twisting it into not seeing for what it is. “the auto becomes a leering, godlike, silent image of the clash between nature and technology.” (Willimon) Mr. Willison is stating that this poem tells the actions of how humans see the value between nature and technology. The value of technology is starting to become more less important to humans than nature. The character described his car like a cat. He valued his car more than saving an unborn fawn. This can cause the destruction of deer’s in the ecosystem. “the wilderness listens, waits and watches while the driver thinks hard for us and then resumes his journey to nowhere, this moment of regret “my only swerving”. Truly, the whole creation groans in travail for a redemption beyond the abilities of us and our machines.” (Willimon,