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A Single Shard's 'Turn My Wheel'

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If you have ever seen someone make pottery, you know how amazing it is. In the passage A Single Shard, the narrator of the passage views to the potter in amazement. In the poem “Turn, Turn, My Wheel”, the speaker also views the potter in amazement, and thinks it is magical. However, there are also some differences in their views. In A Single Shard the narrator shows how Tree-ear is intrigued in what the potter is doing, and wants to see more. Tree-ear wants to see more of the potters work and wants to keep coming back to watch the potter. Tree-ear sees that the potter is unhappy with the work he has done and keeps attempting it over and over again. Tree-ear doesn't understand why he keeps doing it again, since to him, it looks perfect every time. Also in A Single Shard, it isnt Tree-ears first time watching the potter. He has seen the potter before, but keeps coming back to visit. Also it is not his first time seeing the potter, unlike “Turn, Turn, My Wheel”. …show more content…

The speaker is amazed. The speaker doesn't say anything at all to the potter, he just sits there in silence and watched the magic. Since the poem says “Like a magician appeared…”, that is showing us that the speaker watches him like it is magic. It is also showing us that the character in the poem is seeing the potter for the first time. If he was seeing it for the 2nd or 3rd time, then he wouldn't think the potter is as magical as he looked that day. The speaker sees the potter differently then the narrator because the narrator thinks that the potter is just skilled and perfect, but the speaker in the poem thinks much more. The speaker is thinking about how magical it was for him, and how smoothly the clay was molding and moving, and whatever the potter commands the clay does

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