Road Kill

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the dark, he finds a dear dead on the road at the edge of the Wilson River (l.1-2). Already the poem introduces the perfect eerie setting of death in collaboration with the road running along a body of water. Large bodies of water are responsible for the fogs that drench the roads with blankets of fluff obscuring our eyes to see far enough for a safe drive. Apparently, a casualty of nature lies dead on the road.
Although this road killing is tragic, the deer has got to go. The driver is obviously sympathetic enough for the other drivers, for “to swerve (around the deer) might make more dead”; so “it is usually best to roll them into the canyon” where it can be forgotten and out of site; out of mind (l. 3-4). This will not be an easy task; the driver stumbles through the dark back from the car to doe’s recent death with the assistance of nothing more but the glow of a (red) tail light illuminating the lifeless heap (l.5-6). The stiffened body, almost cold, large, and ...

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with their monstrous machines. He fears the potential hazard of some else’s swerving rather than him being the “only” one “swerving” (l.17). So the driver pushes what is left “over the edge into the river (l.18).”
With its darkened imagery, the poem illustrates the sense of the deer’s loneliness in the dark, and the risks the animals take alone in the dark. We continue to keep these factors hidden in the dark and not keep in mind the progressive danger evolving onto the roads that we pave. We do however legislate to tame these mechanical animals with laws such as the use of traffic lights, stop signs, etc. But like all other laws, these laws are broken constantly, even though ...

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