Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney
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- Created on: 19-02-19 12:39
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- Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney
- Conflicts
- Power of nature
- fear of nature
- strength/ weakness of humans
- humanity and helplessness
- Context
- born in 1939
- irish and widely known for his poems and plays
- written from the perspective of a villager on a remote island
- won many awards for his poetry
- Language
- violent imagery
- heavy use of sounds
- assonance and sibilance
- "we are prepared: we build our houses squat"
- "wizened earth"
- "exploding comfortably"
- "spits like a tame cat turned savage"
- Past and Present
- shifts from security to fear
- voltas
- slow paced
- calm before the storm
- mood shifts throughout the poem
- Emotions
- safety
- fear
- feelings of hopelessness
- anxiety
- isolation
- Form and Structure
- blank verse - no clear rhyme
- enjambment
- caesura- continuation and pauses
- conversational language
- first person plurals
- Conflicts
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