WoodChucks & Traveling through the Dark

In Kumin's poem "Woodchucks", the speaker holds a vengeful attitude towards the woodchucks in his garden. He views them as enemies destroying and conquering his property. Throughout the poem, the speaker satiates his thirst for superiority over nature's creatures while enjoying the thrill he gets from hunting the woodchucks. His shortened statements of the killings of the birds demonstrates no sympathy towards them. In contrast, in Stafford's poem "Traveling through the Dark", the speaker holds a momentary,tranquil, sympathetic moment with nature after the death of a pregnant doe. Throughout the poem, unlike the violent tone in Kumin's poem, the speaker's tone is gloomy and sympathetic, reflecting upon the deaths of a mother doe and her unborn fawn. Unlike the first speaker, The speaker in Stafford's poem understands the tranquil balance he interrupts within nature.