He exercises dominion only over a patch of mud. Marvelous, retains neither his power nor his position nor his right to see more than any turtle beneath him. Those first two lines just confirm what we saw on the last page. That is all he can see.Īnd the turtles, of course… all the turtles are free.Īs turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be. Right after Yertle's fall, we get these glorious words:Īnd today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Coyote? Well, he and Yertle have something in common: a spectacular (and strictly linear) fall from grace. At least for anyone who doesn't like turtle dictators. We here at Shmoop aren't ones to take sides, but we've got to say, there's something that happens in the stanza right before the ending that's pretty awesome.
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