To Kill A Deer By Carol Frost And Traveling Through The Dark

The renowned Philosopher Socrates said on his death bed,†Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Please, dont forget to pay the debt.†(). Socrates is stating to Crito that the greek god Asclepius (the god of curing illness) must be paid a sacrifice of homage because Asclepius is curing Socrates with a remedy of death.In this essay the poetry works of â€Å"To Kill a Deer† by Carol Frost and â€Å"Traveling Through the Dark† by William Stafford are critically contrasted as well as reviewed for macro correlation. The beseeching of the poems comparison is lead under the literary devices of Imagery, Figurative Language, and Diction; Carol Frost and William Stafford in each of their works establish an undeniable illusion to the cycle of nature along while†¦show more content†¦Stafford also drives the essence of the death far in to unavoidable realms of the poem causing vigourous imagery. Stafford describes first encountering the deer in the street,†By glow of the tail-light. . . stood by the heap, a recent killing: she had stiffed already†(Stafford ). Rotating around the body of the car a dear is found dead on the ground. The mystery of the described sight ignites a morbid scene of imagery, which Stafford conjures through description. The introduction to the dead deer contains elements to a crippling image that when held in the mind’s eye immediately triggers alarms. The word choice reinforces subtly emergence. The stanza slowly reveals the subject of the poem (death) an flushes out any and all else. The truth is presented in simple motive. The Figurative language conveyed by both Frost and Carol poetically creates the foundation for the striking imagery of the poems. Frost describes the hunt for the deer,†heard her dying, counted her last breaths like a song of dying. . . the last sun on her head like a benediction.†__Explain__. Frost describes the sunset on that day as that of a holy ceremony. Frost displays several images with figurative language,†like a benediction† within the first portion Frost is aligning death of the deer and the death of the day; thus drawing an direct line to the essence of nature and the ritual of the hunt. Frost divisively uses figurative language