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Kay Ryan~ Turtle power point

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Kay RyanBy: Sarah Keffer

Childhood

O Born 1945

O San Joaquin Valley + Mojave Desert

O Antelope Valley College

After College

O UCLA

O Bachelors + masters

O Teacher

O College of Marin

O Middle-aged writer

Why she writes

O Carpenter or comedian

O Likes to write to learn more

“It's the object of my life to get things to

float. Because I like it. Because it's a relief.

Because it is relief.“

Poetry

O Short

O Rhymes

O Speculations about life

O Needle, duck, cloud, etc.

O “I think there is something troubling about the

association of poetry and doing good. Poetry is

poetry. It’s savage. It’s selfish. It’s opportunistic. It’s

not a nice thing.”

O Asked about poet laureates starting causes

Career as Poet

O Poet Laureate~ 16th (2008)

O Poet appointed by government

O Union League Poetry Prize

O Ruth Lily Poetry Award

O Maurice English Poetry Prize

O Chancellor of the Academy of Poets

O Compared to Emily Dickinson, Marianne

Moore, May Swenson

Turtle

Who would be a turtle who could help it?

A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet,

she can ill afford the chances she must take

in rowing toward the grasses that she eats.

Her track is graceless, like dragging

a packing-case places, and almost any slope

defeats her modest hopes. Even being practical,

she's often stuck up to the axle on her way

to something edible. With everything optimal,

she skirts the ditch which would convert

her shell into a serving dish. She lives

below luck-level, never imagining some lottery

will change her load of pottery to wings.

Her only levity is patience,

the sport of truly chastened things.

Who would be a turtle who could help it?

A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet,

she can ill afford the chances she must take

in rowing toward the grasses that she eats.

Her track is graceless, like dragging

a packing-case places, and almost any slope

defeats her modest hopes.Even being

practical,

she's often stuck up to the axle on her way

to something edible. With everything optimal,

she skirts the ditch which would convert

her shell into a serving dish. She lives

below luck-level, never imagining some lottery

will change her load of pottery to wings.

Her only levity is patience,

the sport of truly chastened things

Predators

Slow, can’t go over

hills, moving is a

struggle

Falls, she will flip

Can never leave

her bad life

The only thing she can do

is be patient, a hard task

Turtle’s have a hard life

ElementsO “A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet,”

O Metaphor

O “Her track is graceless, like dragging

a packing-case places”

O Simile

O Very descriptive

O Creating imagery

O “With everything optimal,

she skirts the ditch which would convert

her shell into a serving dish.”O Half rhyme

Elements

O Theme: Turtles (specifically females)lead

hard livesbecause of the many set backs

they face but they use their patience to

get over these obstacles.

O Tone: sad, disapproving

O Shift in tone= last line

O Hard on turtles, and then showing respect

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