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    This document provides a summary of the poem "Travelling Through the Dark" by William Stafford. It outlines key details of the poem, including that the persona discovers a dead pregnant deer after an accident. Upon realizing the fawn inside may still be alive, he is faced with an ethical dilemma of whether to try and save it or let nature take its course. After much deliberation, he decides to push the deer into the nearby river, completing both the physical and mental actions set forth in the poem. The summary concisely outlines the key events and theme of conflict presented in the original document.

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    This document provides a summary of the poem "Travelling Through the Dark" by William Stafford. It outlines key details of the poem, including that the persona discovers a dead pregnant deer after an accident. Upon realizing the fawn inside may still be alive, he is faced with an ethical dilemma of whether to try and save it or let nature take its course. After much deliberation, he decides to push the deer into the nearby river, completing both the physical and mental actions set forth in the poem. The summary concisely outlines the key events and theme of conflict presented in the original document.

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    This document provides a summary of the poem "Travelling Through the Dark" by William Stafford. It outlines key details of the poem, including that the persona discovers a dead pregnant deer after an accident. Upon realizing the fawn inside may still be alive, he is faced with an ethical dilemma of whether to try and save it or let nature take its course. After much deliberation, he decides to push the deer into the nearby river, completing both the physical and mental actions set forth in the poem. The summary concisely outlines the key events and theme of conflict presented in the original document.

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    Presentation on

    “Travelling Through the Dark"


    Presenters:
    • Sarita Ray
    • Upama Sharma
    • Anita Baskota
    • Suman Pandey
    • Rasila Gautam
    • Kajal Chand
    William Stafford
     William Stafford was born on January 17,1914 in Hutchinson, USA.
     American poet and pacifist.
     He composed nearly 22,000 poems, of which roughly 3,000 were
    published.
     Some of his published poetry collections:
     West of Your City,1960
     Travelling Through the Dark,1962
     The Rescued Year, 1965
     Eleven Untitled Poems,1968 etc.

     Notable awards:
     National Book Award for Poetry,1963
     Guggenheim Fellowship,1966
     Western States Book Award, 1992
     Robert Frost Medal, 1993.
    Introduction
     The poem “Travelling Through the Dark” is all about the experience of persona while
    travelling through a jungle along Wilson River.
     The poem is conflict between responsibility and emotion which is technically shown as
    mental and physical actions.
    Key Points

    1. This is persona, giving the reader some vital information, some advice, a bit of local
    wisdom. But as it’s the case with many local issue, there is a universal point to be made.
    2. Persona stumbled back of the car and went near to the deer and found it was a female
    deer (doe) which had already stiffened and almost cold. When the persona dragged the
    doe, he felt something different.
    3. Then comes the revelation- the doe was pregnant as its belly part was large and warm as
    well. The fawn is inside and probably still alive. But the speaker is adamant that the
    fawn will never see the light of day.
    4. This is an ethical dilemma-open the doe to bring a new fawn into the
    world, risk being hit by other cars. Or simply push the doe down into the
    river where the persona is listening to the wilderness listening which
    includes himself, the car, the doe and the fawn.
    5. The persona thinks hard for everyone, and the reader must think hard too.
    The swerving is a momentary change of thought but in the end the persona
    does the one thing he knew he had to do from the moment he stopped for
    that deer
    Poetic Device

    Irony/Ironical:
     It is because at the beginning after knowing that the fawn was alive, he talked like
    he would save the little life.
     But after deep thinking he pushed the doe along with the alive fawn being self-
    centered and cruel action.
    Techniques
     This poem “Travelling Through the Dark” is written in irregular pattern.
     It’s not a musical poem.
     Terms of physical actions and mental actions are practiced.
     Here tail-light symbolize the color “Red” which means the blood of the deceased deer and
    the car is symbolic of technology.
     As all the incident is happening in the dark, it symbolize a spiritual darkness.
    Questions of Text
    1. Explain the title of the poem. Who are all those travelling through the dark?
    • Title states that someone is travelling at night in the dark.
    • Modern people living in the age of science and technology are the ones who are travelling
    through the dark.
    2. Show how the action develops stanza by stanza?
    • In first stanza, persona finds a dead doe
    • In second stanza, persona finds that the doe is pregnant
    • In third stanza, persona presents his mental and emotional reaction stating that the fawn is waiting
    alive but never to be born
    • In fourth stanza, persona describes the activities of his car
    • In last stanza, persona thinks hard for his group and pushes the pregnant doe into the river.
    3. At what point does the physical action cease, to be replaced by another kind?
    • The physical action ceases in the third stanza when the persona finds that the doe was
    pregnant
    • Persona thinks that the fawn is alive but never to be born as the doe is dead where the
    physical action is replaced by emotional action.
    4. How do the last two lines complete both types of action?
    • Mental action as the persona is in the dilemma to save the little fawn or not
    • Physical action as the persona pushes the doe with alive fawn.
    5. What is the meaning of the last two lines of the poem? Does the poem moralize?
    • It carries central idea which suggest us to handle the conflicting situation in a rational manner
    • Yes, the poem is moralized.
    6. Do you think the reference to the alive but never-to-be-born fawn sentimental?
    h
    • It’s sentimental as poet opens the bitter reality of the life of little fawn who are made but dead
    without birth in the earth.
    7. Explain the meaning of the word “swerve” in line 4 and line 17. Does the speaker “swerve”?
    • “Swerve” in line four means to change the direction of the car and the line seventeen it means to
    change the idea
    • In line four persona doesn’t change the direction of his car and in line seventeen he changes his mind
    and pushes the doe into the river instead of thinking about the fawn’s fate.
    8. What is the tone of the poem: ironical, sympathetic, indifferent?
    • The tone of the poem is ironical because the persona pushed the doe into the river knowing there was
    a fawn alive in her belly
    • Sympathetic is also the tone of the poem because at first persona showed sympathy act like he will
    save the fawn.
    Question not present in the Poem
    1. How it is ironical to humanity?
    • Humans are self-centered as without thinking about a live fawn the person like us
    pushes the doe into the river.
    • The conflict that goes on in the human mind between ugly virtuous actions like
    responsibility, duty, etc. one is taught to believe in and practice in day to day life
    and the difficulty of executing them at crucial times.
    References
    https://notes.tyrocity.com/travelling-through-the-dark-heritage-of-words/

    http://hsebnotes4u.blogspot.com/2013/02/hseb-notes-of-english-class-12-compl
    ete-summary-of-the-heritage-of-words.html

    https://youtu.be/eGWO1ldEhtQ?t=1
    Thank you

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