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A 3 page paper that analyzes and discusses the poem titled The Host by William Heyen. No additional sources cited.
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existence, and the possible struggles, of a baby turtle in a pond. It is a poem about nature, a poem about struggling to survive, and a poem about the negative
actions of human beings. The following paper analyzes and discusses this particular poem. An Analysis of The Host by William Heyen In this poem the narrator speaks of
being at a pond, a "dying pond," wherein the narrator describes the environment that is less than desirable (Heyen 1). The narrator is seeking out something that is "under and
oilspilled rainbow" and in a place were "cans rusted, and slick tires/glinted their whitewall irises" (2, 3-4). It is a less than pleasant setting wherein the narrator is poking and
searching for what they know is a baby snapping turtle. In this poem, at the beginning, the reader may well just be envisioning this ugly pond as the setting,
with no subversive message within the setting. It is a poem about a sad little baby turtle that the narrator is discovering and examining. But, in the process the reader
begins to understand that the narrator is wondering if the turtle will survive because of the nature of humanity and pollution. This thought can be envisioned with the image of
a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue that the host is also a
symbol of pollution as humanitys mistreatment of the environment is that leech that clings to, and tries to destroy, the turtle. Human beings, in many ways, are leeches because
they have a tendency to take, like a leech sucks blood, from the world without thinking how that will affect the world. They do not stop to envision whether or
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