Hurry read the excerpt from stanzas 3 and 4 of "the turtle.” 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 based on what is happening in this part of the poem, the repeated "s” sound most likely relates to the natural flow of the turtle’s actions. the turtle’s difficulty building a nest. how the turtle views the seasons. how the sand feels to the turtle.

"The Turtle", written by Mary Oliver, is a short poem that belongs to a collection of works by her titled Dream Works. I most of these poems, but particularly "The Turtle", Oliver seems to be reflecting on the truth of man, who people really are, through her observations and reflections on nature itself. It is almost as if the way that nature and its creatures act and behave, are a reflection of the inner workings of man. "The Turtle" is literally a poem that reflects on the instict of animals, in this case, a turtle, in their inhability to think and their drive to simply act on instincts, despite anything that might be going on around them. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can change or stop instinct and the turtle acts blindly following said force. In this case, the repetition of the "s" sound comes at a specific point in the poem, and it is where the poet makes emphasis on the instinct that drives the turtle naturally to act the way she does, without any concious thought from it. This is why the correct answer is: the natural flow of the turtle´s actions.