An Analysis of Animal Wisdom What if animals can talk? Can you imagine what we can learn from them? In the poem, Animal Wisdom by Nancy Wood, animals talked. She used personification in her poem; that is, when you give human traits to animals or things. In this poem the turtle the bear, and the eagle teaches people how the earth should be treated. People are too busy to enjoy life. The turtle is personified as a person that talks, first is the turtle It talks about how people should slow down. On lines 4-5 the turtle says “what's missing is the ability to find contentment in a slow-paced life”! What the turtle is saying is that humans need to slow down and be satisfied with their life, and enjoy their environment. People
