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Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart
A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it.
Poetry teems with charismatic beasts, from Shelley’s skylark to “ Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers.” A comprehensive anthology of zoological verse would be fat with doggerel and birdsong, limericks and nursery rhymes, nightingales, foxes and toads. Turtles may not have the charm or charisma of other beasts — they don’t dominate the human imagination like eagles or lions, or domesticate it like dogs or cats — but they have a notable presence in literature and myth. Her patience isn’t going to win her any races: It’s her best response to a tough break; a way of making light of a heavy situation.
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