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Turtles Hatching By Mark O Connor Analysis

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If you knew the entirety of all the things in the universe that could harm you would you still live every day like you do now? Would you still run to the beach to survive or keep flying high in the sky, being a master of the wind? Or would you climb to the top of a waterfall, your mind overcome by all your anguished thoughts and fears that you can no longer bare to live anymore? Throughout the selected poems Mark O’Connor expresses concepts of life and death with a subliminal idea that ‘ignorance is bliss’ but also challenging us on how we live. He does this by describing the journey of hatching turtles and the flying of terns and how they live their life without knowing all the dangers that could harm them. To paint such a picture he creates powerful imagery through his diverse choice of sounds, verbs and metaphors to express his ideas. …show more content…

He tells us bluntly in the beginning lines that “one in one hundred survive”. The turtles, however, are unaware of such a fact and proceed on with only their instinct to guide them. The turtles that do not survive due to the dangers of the world, lived their short and unexperienced life without fearing the unknown. This challenges us to stop and think about how we live our lives; if knowing what is out there, would we then not put one hundred percent into getting where we want to be? O’Connor redescribes such a complex idea of life and death through the observation and description of a simple and natural cycle of

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