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breaks from the blue-black

skin of the water, dragging her shell

with its mossy scutes

across the shallows and through the rushes

and over the mudflats, to the uprise,

to the yellow sand,

to dig with her ungainly feet

a nest, and hunker there spewing

her white eggs down

into the darkness, and you think



of her patience, her fortitude,

her determination to complete

what she was born to do----

and then you realize a greater thing----

she doesn’t consider

what she was born to do.

She’s only filled

with an old blind wish.

It isn’t even hers but came to her

in the rain or the soft wind

which is a gate through which her life keeps walking.



She can’t see

herself apart from the rest of the world

or the world from what she must do

every spring.

Crawling up the high hill,

luminous under the sand that has packed against her skin,

she doesn’t dream

she knows

she is a part of the pond she lives in,

the tall trees are her children,

the birds that swim above her

are tied to her by an unbreakable string.

—“The Turtle,”
Mary Oliver

Break down the structure of the poem by completing each sentence.

The first stanza is mainly about
.

The second stanza is mainly about
.



THIS SCREENSHOT IS FOR THE FIRST STANZA

Answer 1

Answer: First stanza is about the turtle's movement and actions.

Second stanza is about reasons for the turtle's behavior.

Third stanza is about the turtles connection to the rest of nature.

Explanation: I did it on edge

Answer 2

Answer:

1. The first stanza is mainly about : The turtle's movement and action.

2. The second stanza is mainly about : The reasons for the turtle's behavior.

Explanation: As the turtle "breaks from the blue-black skin of water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes," the first line describes the turtle's movement and action. The poet is attempting to convey the motion of a turtle swimming through blue-black ocean water while dragging its shell through the mudflats and through the rushes.

(across the mudflats, to the uprise, to the yellow sand, to dig a nest with her awkward feet, and hunker these spewing her white eggs down into the darkness.) The turtle is described as walking on wet sand before moving to the yellow, dry sand to dig a nest in which to lay her white eggs, according to the poet.

The second stanza explains the reasons for the turtle's behaviour ( her fortitude her determination to complete what she was born to do — —) But then we realise something more significant: she doesn't consider (or is unaware of) the reason behind her birtth.

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