A Comparison Between ?Traveling through the dark? and ?A Noiseless, Pa

A Comparison betwixt traveling by means of the dark and A Noiseless, Patient Spider     William Staffords "Traveling through the dark" is beautifully written poem that expresses unmatchable of lifes most challenging aspects. It is the story of a valet de chambres solitary struggle to deal with a tragic burden that he encounters. Driving down a abridge mountain road, Traveling through the dark, the narrator of the poem encounters a deer. This line might fritter the reader into believing the poem has a happy theme however, the counterbalance word of the second line reverses this belief. The deer is actually dead on the process of the Wilson River Road (2, 911). The traveler decides to send the deer over the edge of the bearyon, because to swerve might make more dead (4, 911). This line indicates that if he fails or swerves in his determination, the deer could cause an accident on the narrow road that might cost more lives. The narrator harvest- festival with his disastrous task. He approaches the deer and observes that it is a recent killing. He drags her off to the stance of the road, noting that she is large in the belly (8, 911). The narrator soon discovers that the deer is pregnant, and that her flex is still alive. At this moment he hesitates, distraught over the decision he knows he must make. Faced by the implications of this decision, the narrator considers his surround his car stares ahead into the darkness with its lowe red ink parking lights, purring its steady engine he stands in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red, (15, 912) and can hear the wild listen (16, 911). All of these describe the anxiety he feels ab break through his responsibility. The personified car is expectantly awaiting his decision, eager to get moving again. The wilderness takes on hu human being abilities also, silently witnessing the step forwardcome it knows must be, but neediness it was otherwise. As the narrator ponders all o f this, the taillights of the car illuminate him in their red light. This is reflective of the heightened emotions he is experiencing, but also brings to mind the bloody part of the deer and her unborn absorb. The narrator thinks hard for us all (17,912) and proceeds with the task he had committed to since the beginning. He pushes the deer and her unborn fawn over the edge into the river. There is much more to Traveling through the dark than its literal story. The ... ... wishes to underline this point by making the string up that the spider will use to launch itself into the air drawn out to an extreme. The spider is tireless in its quest, and so too is the somebody. The mind, like the spider, is flinging out a "gossamer thread to catch somewhere" (10, 810). And like the spider, the soul is willing and able to wait until the moment shall arrive that is just upright to begin its travels. However, like the spiders fragile silk, this bridge is also frail and habituated to breakage from a careless act or an unheeding nature. So, in spite of the careful and deliberate act of flinging out a fibril to catch on some unknown "sphere", it is possible that the soul may never reach its destination. For Whitman, that is both the excitement and the scariness of it all. Perhaps he is communicating to the reader the idea that though one may never get to where one is going, still, the journey is very important.     Although by the language and the elements within these two poems seem very different, the interpretation suggests that they both discuss mans journey through life. The physical in one, and the spiritual in the other.