After reading an array of Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island poems
it is clear that he feels there needs to be major change made in the way people
go about unconsciously infecting the environment. With only have read a handful
it is hard to determine whether Turtle Island is a pessimistic or optimistic
book. For some of his poems like The Use of Light they are whimsical and light
while some convey darker imagery and deeper meaning. One that stuck out to me
the most was Mother Earth: Her Whales, this is an example of a poem where
Snyder shows how the destruction of humans was and still affecting our resources.
Overall Turtle Island’s poems all show a connection between man and nature.
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