Question

Which excerpt from "The Turtle” best shows that the turtle is following her natural instincts by building a nest?

breaks from the blue-black
skin of the water, dragging her shell
with its mossy scutes
She’s only filled
with an old blind wish.
It isn’t even hers but came to her
Crawling up the high hill,
luminous under the sand that has packed against her skin,
she doesn’t dream
she knows
she is a part of the pond she lives in,
the tall trees are her children,

Answer 1

The lines:
"She’s only filled
with an old blind wish.
It isn’t even hers but came to her"

Why: These lines explicitly describe the turtle’s action as driven by an inherited, unconscious impulse—an "old blind wish" that "came to her"—which most directly signals natural, instinctive behavior (such as building a nest) rather than a deliberate choice.