"The Dam" is a poem in which the narrator's voice is critical, and plays a very important role in guiding the reader throughout the scene, making it feel what the narrator felt when he lived the experience. This voice responds to the one of a very strong and defined character, whose personality seems unchangeable and very right. His words in the poem shoe a very rational way of thinking, and everything he says in really …showed first 75 words of 480 total…

…showed last 75 words of 480 total…of their benefit was. He leads the reader to think about the whole situation in the exact same way he felt about it when it occurred, and its reflective tone and nostalgic feelings make the reader wonder if the ends justified the means, a question no longer rhetorical, because the narrator gives his answer constantly throughout the poem, criticising and sarcastically referring to the people who have ruined his valley and have dissolved his culture.