What did we say to each other that now we are as the deer who walk in single file with heads high with ears forward with eyes watchful with hooves always placed on firm ground in whose limbs there is latent flight Source: Momaday, N. Scott. "Simile." The Language of Literature. New York: McDougal Littell, 2006. 265. Print. Which statement about the poem is false? O Atheme of the poem is that people are cautious around those who have hurt them. The subject of the poem is deer and the flight risk that they pose. "Morose" and "gloomy" could be used to describe the mood of the poem. Momaday makes use of sensory imagery throughout the poem.