Konnor Stanton

English

31 January, 21:34

Which sound is repeated three times in the first part of

the poem?

"buh"

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

o "ell"

"ee"

"kuh"

"The Turtle,

Mary Oliver

1) Intro

Done