Which excerpt from "The Turtle" includes words that create a calm and welcoming mood?

skin of the water, dragging her shell

with its mossy scutes

across the shallows and through the rushes

to dig with her ungainly feet

a nest, and hunker there spewing

her white eggs down

of her patience, her fortitude,

her determination to complete

what she was born to do -

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.

The best option is D:

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.

Explanation:

"The Turtle" is a poem by author Mary Oliver. The speaker describes the turtle's life purpose of leaving the water to lay eggs in the sand, a sacred, beautiful action done by instinct alone. The speaker admires the turtle's drive and patience in completing her task, and reflects on how the turtle is unaware of itself as an individual. The turtle sees itself as the world, and world as itself.

Among the excerpts given for analysis, the one that includes words that create a calm and welcoming mood is:

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.

This excerpt talks of the turtle's instinct, of which the animal itself is unaware. When the author says the instinct came to "her in the rain or the soft wind", she creates a calm and welcoming mood. Rain and soft wind evoke an emotional response from readers: calmness, tranquility, peace. The noise produced by the rain or the soft wind is commonly associated with the feeling of drowsiness, or to the comfort of being home, protected, while the rain falls and the wind blows.

The correct answer is D. 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.

This excerpt from "The Turtle" includes words that contribute to create a welcoming, and calm mood.