storm on the island key quotes
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- Created on: 23-05-17 18:28
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- storm in the island key quotes...
- the title
- The title could be a metaphor for war.
- It is blunt and explicit.
- There is no ‘the’ or ‘a’ before the noun storm which could suggest that Heaney is talking about multiple storms.
- We are also not told which island it is which could suggest that it could be any storm that anyone is fighting.
- "we are prepared"
- about community, narrative voice that lives on the islands and makes readers connected to the islanders.
- It sets a tone that it is a shared experience, whatever this storm may involve.
- He also talks in free verse, which make it sound like a conversational style poem. in order to encourage readers to imagine and make them involve.
- Although the poem refers to the pronoun “we” there is a hint of loneliness and isolation; man pitted against the elements. Particularly through the noun island.
- "wizned earth"
- the earth is old and barren, nothing grows. Suggests it is and isolated place
- Connects
to “no stacks” and “no trees” the repetition of the determiner “no” empathises
what the island hasn’t got in order to make it seem more vulnerable.
- everything we expect to find on the island is not there. No hope for this island.
- He uses monosyllabic words to convey the simple bare landscape of the poem. Examples include “rock” “squat” “sink” “build”
- the title
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