skin of the water, dragging her shell
English, 08.12.2021 09:40 ericgideon
100 points
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
In what two ways does the poem’s structure match the movements of the turtle it describes?
They both have even movements.
They both stop and start regularly.
They both have uneven movements.
They both stop and start unevenly.
They both are separated into three parts.
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100 points
breaks from the blue-black
skin of the water, dragging her shell
skin of the water, dragging her shell
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