Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as a shield (Turtle). This reptile is the object in Kay Ryan’s poem entitled “Turtle”. Kay Ryan makes a remarkable observation of a turtle. Along with her observation is the relation of a turtle’s daily life to the life of a human being. Despite the heavy shell that it carries around, the turtle proves to be a very strong animal because it never chooses to give up on the load that it carries, and when the readers face complexities in life, they must adapt the attitude that the turtle possesses.
The speaker asks at the beginning of the poem, “Who would be a turtle who could help it?” a question which suggests that everyone will pass through hardships in this life (Ryan, 1). No one is exempt from tribulations. Readers will have to face problems that will test them and their strength to endure. Difficulties in life may vary for every person in every age. Readers at times, when faced with a hardship, easily give up. The speaker is aware of this fact. She then continues with this line, “A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet” (Ryan, 2). Readers are weighed down by their difficulties in life causing them to lose hope and not push forward. To compare the readers’ situation to the turtle’s situation, readers only have to carry their burden for a short time while the turtles carry their heavy shell all their lives. While facing the challenges that we have in our lives, we sometimes have to take some chances even though these risks may sometimes be out of our league. The speaker has made the statement that the risks may be out of our league in her words, “She can ill afford the chances she must ...
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...h challenges. The turtle never gives up its “load of pottery” (Ryan, 13). Instead, it carries its shell with “patience” (Ryan, 14). Trials may come in different aspects of the readers’ life. It may also come in different magnitudes. Nevertheless, readers should always remember that they should be strong. If readers maintain a positive attitude about the challenges that they face, they will be much more capable of enduring the trials that will come along their way. An article of beauty such as a diamond displays the previous statement. Before they ever turned into a diamond, they were pure carbon found beneath the earth. Through undergoing immense amounts of pressure for millions of years, they are slowly turned from a black rock to a sparkling diamond. It is the same with the readers undergoing tribulations will polish and release the real beauty that they possess.
In the Grapes of Wrath, a novel by John Steinbeck, there are many examples of symbolism. One of the most prominent symbols found in this book is the turtle seen in chapter three. This turtle is symbolic of three things: the Joads and their journey west, Tom Joad himself, and the promise of new life. First, here’s a little background information on the turtle. This land turtle was somewhere to go. Where than is, no one knows, except perhaps John Steinbeck. To get there the turtle decides to take the perilous journey down a dusty dirt road that stretches along the quiet countryside. What could happen? A lot more than one might think. In fact, the turtle faces quite a few challenged ranging from pesky insects, to ledges, to even cars. But, the thing that makes this turtle special is that he never gives up (Pages
“The Rattler” explores the conflicts between man and nature that seem inescapable. The narrator is taking a walk through the desert when he comes across a rattlesnake. After some thought, he decides to kill it and proceeds to violently slaughter it with a hoe. The snake fights back when provoked, but fails. The author makes the reader feel sympathy towards the snake and empathy towards the man through the personality of the snake, the point of view of the man, and the language and details regarding the setting.
The turtle appears throughout giving the contextual symbolism of the struggles of the Joad family’s survival during the family’s travels to the west and new life. The turtle’s travels alongside the highway on the hot pavement and survives an attack by a driver who purposely swerved to hit the turtle, “And now a light truck approached, and as it came near, the driver saw the turtle and swerved to hit it. His front wheel struck the edge of the shell, flipped the turtle like a tiddly-wonk, spun it like a coin, and rolled it off the highway. The truck went back on its course along the right side”
Looming obstacles in the life of an individual serve as molds which instill perseverance, hard work in an individual's identity and bring hope for the future.
The narrator describes his agony about the war. The soldier is suffering from discomfort, depression, and disappointment. He describes his mental and physical disability. Moreover, he talks about his girlfriend, Meg. The poem Disabled expresses the value of nature, referencing the war.
Turtles are reptiles that are very different from others because of its uniqueness that can be practically useless as a guide to distinguish between potential ancestors, and the origin of the turtle remains one of the unanswered questions of evolutionary biology. There were possibilities that the options for the turtles were almost the entire range of turtle reptile, living and extinct.
During the time we learn about the turtle, it faces several hardships. First, the turtle attempts to cross the road, “Pushing hind legs strained and slipped, boosting the shell along, and the horny head protruded as far as the neck could stretch,” (Steinbeck, 21). Second, the turtle has to tr...
...emale leatherback turtle and her habits in order to fully understand this critically endangered marine animal.
This poem describes the worry of decision-making and the rewards of forging your own path. The subject of the poem is faced with a decision of taking the "safe" route that others have taken before or breaking new ground. He finds that making original and independent choices makes life rewarding. One poetic device is imagery described in the lines, “long I stood/ And looked down one as far as I could/ To where it bent in the undergrowth;” (lines 3-5). The imagery is used to describe his sight of the not literal two paths that he could choose. One form of figurative language used is Metaphors. This poem is attractive because is its very inspirational to me at a time where I am making a lot of important
Introduction Caretta caretta, otherwise known as the Loggerhead Sea Turtle, is an oceanic turtle that exist throughout the globe. They are circumtropical species (LeBlanc et al. 2014) meaning they are distributed throughout temperate and tropical ocean regions, but most abundant species are found in the United States coastal range. Loggerheads largest nesting aggregations in the Atlantic are found along the southeastern United States coastal range where about 80% of all nesting occurs and 90% of all hatchlings are produced (Abecassis et al. 2013).
The poet tries to appreciate the people, who are always present when their friends and family are in need. She says that when people are in need of help, and/or suffering, all one needs to do is stick by their side, to give them courage to overcome their troubles.
In Chapter ten,Alice been introduced to a lobster.Alice almost volunteers that she once tasted one,but checks herself and simply says no.Alice asks about the whiting,holding baack from impulse to mention that she has also tasted hitning.Alice been in the whiting’s place that left the porpoise out of the dance.The Mock Turtle explains to Alice that is unwise for a fish to go anywhere without a purpose.Alice botched the words to Father William and they order to recite the poem “Tis the voice of the sluggard.”Alice requested a song that is “Turtle Soup”.
This short quote can have two meanings; on the surface it can mean that the objects she talks about are so small that they are inevitable to lose, like keys and minutes spent doing frivolous activities. However, as shown in the final stanza, this poem is truly about the loss of someone dear to her and The poet is trying to portray the fragility of a life, as it is created with the intent to be lost (death). is unavoidable and everyone must succumb to it. The speaker articulates tension between the two. own need to control specific life events and the difficulty in the reality of actually accomplishing... ...
“Imagine walking on the beach at night, the sky completely full of stars. Suddenly you see this big dinosaur lumbering out of the sea—a 1,000-pound, 2-meter-long (450-kilogram, 6.5-foot-long) turtle. With incredible concentration, she uses her flippers to dig a huge nest in the sand."
... Nature, including human beings, is `red in tooth and claw'; we are all `killers' in one way or another. Also, the fear which inhabits both human and snake (allowing us, generally, to avoid each other), and which acts as the catalyst for this poem, also precipitates retaliation. Instinct, it seems, won't be gainsaid by morality; as in war, our confrontation with Nature has its origins in some irrational `logic' of the soul. The intangibility of fear, as expressed in the imagery of the poem, is seen by the poet to spring from the same source as the snake, namely the earth - or, rather, what the earth symbolizes, our primitive past embedded in our subconsciouness. By revealing the kinship of feelings that permeates all Nature, Judith Wright universalises the experience of this poem.