Poetry Essay "Traveling Through the Dark," by William Stafford, is a poem about a moral dilemma about the nature of death and the sadness that comes with it. The situation gets worse when a man, the driver of this truck, is driving late at night and sees this deer on the side of the road. As he approaches he sees that this deer has recently been shot. Notice that the doe is pregnant and that her body is becoming very stiff but her belly remains warm with the baby deer waiting to be born. This is the time when the intensity of the situation changes significantly for driver fatality. He pushes the deer along the side of the road and forgets about it and runs away or tries to save this baby deer residing in his mother's womb. Poetry can have different meanings to people, but no matter what historical period poetry can always seem relevant in one way or another. My interpretation of “Traveling Through the Dark” has changed since I first read it. When we read this poem and compare my meaning to another person, we both seem to stumble upon something ...