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…showed last 75 words of 743 total…on our way with the difficulties behind us. William Stafford does an excellent job of holding to his objective in this poem. His style of story telling kept his main theme at focus. His story clarifies the confused nature of life. We must learn to deal with tragedies such as death, since they are unavoidable. These events do have an everlasting effect on us, but they should not lead us away from our natural course.