The poet compares the giant tortoise to "the passenger pigeon/ the dodo, the whooping crane, the eskimo..." in order to --

the sun warms our planet, and with the moon, creates the tides. the moon orbits the earth and in turn, the earth orbits the sun. because they appear to be the same size in the sky, the sun, earth and moon work together to create eclipses. when the moon is directly in between the earth and sun

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he said that the sun rises inthe east