humanity

Alden Nowlan's "The Bull Moose" and William Stafford's "Traveling through the dark" are poems that reflect man's treatment of nature. Animals are used in both poems to portray nature. "The Bull Moose" reflects man's often inhumane treatment of the animal's world while "Traveling through the dark" reflects man's more humane treatment of the animal world.

Nowlan’s poem begins with the harmless appearance of a bull moose. He gives his readers the impression the moose is of ancient times as he marched “Down from the purple mist of trees, “ and “stopped at last by a pole-fenced pasture.”

Nowlan goes onto illustrate man’s inhumane treatment of nature soon after the bull moose stopped at the pole-fence. A crowd of people quickly gathered around the roadside in their cars to scrutinize the moose. Then, "The young men snickered and tried to pour beer/down his throat, while their girl friends took their pictures./And the bull moose let them stroke his tick-ravaged...