In children’s poetry, the duck’s waddle and quack provide playful rhythm and onomatopoeic charm, as in “Five Little Ducks”; In pastoral verse, ducks gliding on village ponds symbolize tranquility and the harmony of domesticated nature; Modern urban poets depict mallards nesting in city parks, highlighting nature’s adaptability to concrete landscapes; In fables turned poetic, the duck represents simplicity and maternal devotion (e.g., “The Ugly Duckling” retellings); Ecopoets use diving ducks like scaup to draw attention to wetland pollution and the hidden life beneath placid surfaces; The duck’s V-formation flight (though more typical of geese) is sometimes poetically borrowed to evoke unity and seasonal passage.