Marilyn Nelson's Clay

The poem starts out with an introduction to the speaker. The speaker in the beginning of Marilyn Nelson’s “Clay” is a third person observer. The author presents the speaker to us by naming Carver as a character in the poem and referring to Carver by his name, rather than forming the poem from his narrative view. Additionally, you can infer that the poem is narrated by a third person view because Marilyn Nelson’s speaker in “Clay” describes how the Earth’s features appear to Carver. The speaker captures George Carver’s discovery of the true meaning of beauty.
Clay has an important role in our world. From the rock cycle, clay is derived from the weathering of rocks. Erosion will further break down the rocks and turn them into sediment.