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Lighting the Darkness

William Stafford is an award winning poet who wrote in a style which may be considered as simple and almost comparable to the way that famous Robert Frost wrote . However , beneath the simple words tied together into poetry , are meanings that touch even the most complex subjects of life His style is that of mystical yet gentle , and daydreaming and mocking ( William Stafford

One of Stafford 's famous works is the poem Traveling through the Dark , which narrated the story of the

author 's trip in a dark area of the road . This simple account gradually opened and presented the struggles of both man and nature against each other 's ways of living . It explicated through poetic elements how the continuous changes in man 's life result to the harm of nature and its children . Also , it conveyed a kind of grief and guilt for the inevitability of this certain kind of existence

The Form and Structure

The poem was written in free verse , which is a form mostly utilized by poets of the 19th and 20th century (Nelson n .p . It does not possess a well- defined metric pattern . However , there is an internal rhyme scheme , evidenced by the repetition of vowel and consonant sounds within the stanzas

For instance , in the second stanza , the consistently repeating vowel sound is the long O from the words doe , and cold . While the repeated consonant sound is the sound of the letter L in...