"Traveling Through the Dark" <Tab/>by: William Stafford&lt The speaker in the poem must reflect on what to do about the dead does, he knows that in order to keep other ppl from hitting her & getting into an accident he must push her into the canyon, but the still alive foal weighs on his conscience. The speaker has to search his mind in order to reconcile …showed first 75 words of 520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 520 total…to the road. As we push life's obstacles off to the side, they fall into this symbolic river & are swept farther & farther away from us by the current of time, allowing us to continue on our way. We must learn to deal w/ tragedies such as death, as they are unavoidable. These events do have an everlasting effect on us, but they should not lead us away from our natural course.