Which excerpt from the "The Turtle" best expresses the theme that all living things are a part of, and are guided by, a natural
purpose? 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, She's only filled with an old blind wish. It isn't even hers but came to her Crawling up the high hill, luminous under the sand that has packed against her skin, she doesn't dream
The excerpt that best expresses the theme that all living things are a part of, and are guided by, a natural purpose is:
<u>She's only filled with an old blind wish. It isn't even hers but came to her</u>
Explanation:
"The Turtle" is a poem by author Mary Oliver. The speaker in the poem talks of the beauty and effortlessness of turtle laying eggs in the sand. It's a sacred action, which the turtle itself cannot understand since the drive to do it does not come consciously. It is a purely instinctive drive, guided by nature. The speaker admires the turtle's determination and patience in completing the task while remaining unaware of itself as an individual. The turtle sees itself as the world, and the world as itself.
