Storm on the Island
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 24-05-18 11:54
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- Storm on the Island
- Form
- Blank verse
- Conversational tone
- Dramatic monologue
- One stanza
- Structure
- Shift from security to fear
- Familiar things become frightening
- Context
- Northern Ireland
- Wrote about childhood, nature and his homeland
- Quotes
- "We are prepared: we build our houses squat"
- "the sea is company/Exploding comfortably"
- "spits like a tame cat/Turned savage"
- "wind dives/And strafes invisibly"
- "We are bombarded by the empty air./Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."
- "This wizened earth has never troubled us/With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks/Or stooks that can be lost"
- "you can listen to the thing you fear/Forgetting that it pummels your house too"
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