Which excerpt from "the turtle” includes words that best express a tone of admiration and respect?

a)breaks from the blue-black
skin of the water, dragging her shell
with its mossy scutes

b)of her patience, her fortitude,
her determination to complete
what she was born to do –

c)she’s only filled
with an old blind wish.
it isn’t even hers but came to her

d)she knows
she is a part of the pond she lives in,
the tall trees are her children,

The correct answer is B)of her patience, her fortitude, her determination to complete what she was born to do

Explanation:

The turtle was a poem that was written by Mary Oliver. It was taken from the book called "Dream Work" which is a collection of poems from Mary Oliver.  In this particular excerpt, the author is describing the attitude towards life, so it is using a tone of admiration and respect.

on my last

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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