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William Stafford
(1914 - 1993 / Kansas / United States)
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Norbert Hirschhorn (4/5/2005 2:33:00 AM)
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William Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark: I am surprised how the poem is always misread. The doe 'had stiffened already, almost cold', i.e, several hours along since death, which makes it impossible for a fawn to be still alive. The whole premise of the poem is thus false, and the dilemma inauthentically presented. Stafford was a man who understood nature and creatures, and so I have to wonder what was he thinking in creating this bit of fiction.
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"At noon in the desert a panting lizard
waited for history, its elbows tense,
watching the curve of a particular road
as if something might happen." |
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William Stafford (1914-1941), U.S. poet. At the Bomb Testing Site (l. 1-4). . .
The Darkness Around Us Is Deep; Selected Poems. Robert Bly, ed. (1993) HarperCollins.
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"a doe, a recent killing;
she had stiffened already, almost cold.
I dragged her off she was large in the belly." |
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William Stafford (1914-1941), U.S. poet. Traveling through the Dark (l. 6-8). . .
The Darkness Around Us Is Deep; Selected Poems. Robert Bly, ed. (1993) HarperCollins.
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