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 Write one to three sentences explaining how the word "swim" adds to the idea that the turtle "can't see herself apart from the rest of the world" in the final stanza.

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Josephine Phillips

6 November, 15:48

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 Write one to three sentences explaining how the word "swim" adds to the idea that the turtle "can't see herself apart from the rest of the world" in the final stanza.

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Gaven · Answer 1

Mary Oliver uses the word "swim" instead of "fly" to show that the turtle sees everything as part of her world, including the birds in the air. The turtle feels connected to the birds and sees them as swimming in her pond.