Traveling Through the Dark (Essay Sample)

Traveling Through the Dark Reader response/ Impression After reading the poem, I pondered on the suffering of the deer that was recently killed and the fawn inside it waiting to be born. I never liked the idea of animals suffering slowly, being killed on purpose, and even hunt them down for fun. The character in the story sympathizes with what the deer is feeling and pushed her over the river because she is already dead and her body had to be moved. I think that these kinds of pieces are appropriate to raise the truth about how humans should not allow animals to go through pain for a long time, especially that they cannot speak. They are defenseless against the harsh realities of life and people should be kinder to animals. Quote “My finger touching her side brought me to reason.” This quote struck me because this is a time when the character in the poem realized that the deer is carrying another life inside her, which means that two lives were lost. The reason behind the death of the deer is unknown and it is not said in the poem if she was left to die or was killed right away. The character found her already cold and realized there is a fawn after touching her side. The line is full of insight because the situation got clearer and the emotion in the poem deepened. Vocabulary The poem is written in very basic English and the words are easy to understand. I did not find any words that need an interpretation or has a deeper meaning than how they are used in the piece. I think that anyone who reads the poem for the first time and is not an expert will not find it hard to decipher the meaning of it. Questions What could have killed the deer? Did the deer die naturally or was it shot? How long has she been dead before the character in the poem found her? Was the fawn a boy or a girl? The poem also did not say the...