Storm on the Island
- Created by: pinkbeer
- Created on: 27-07-19 14:49
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- Storm on the Island
- Direct Address "We are prepared: we build our houses squat"
- People are confident about how their house is
- It sounds like a motivated war speech
- 'We'- the weather unites them
- 'We'- an air of arrogance as if they can overpower the weather
- Dramatic irony- false sense of hope in the people
- The people seem patriotic in defending their island- ongoing fight
- They are 'prepared', but ironically they don't know how powerful the wind is
- The rhythm sounds like soldiers marching together
- The island is 'exclusive' to them- isolated community
- Simile "The very windows, spits like a tame cat"
- The 'windows' are like mouths- spitting- no respect
- 'spitting'- can also represent their frustration or the anger of the storm
- The people are usually, quiet, but now 'spitting'- no longer 'tame' like a cat
- The storm is 'taming' the people
- Their eyes are the windows/ soul- attacked/ blinded by the storm
- The people were comfortable/ pampered like a tamed cat- but know under threat
- Cat- represents the storm itself placid/ vicious- quick reaction
- The storm is like the cat- it feeds off the 'sins' of the people who take nature for granted
- Metaphor "The wizened earth had never troubled us"
- 'Wizened'- misleading because the storm takes revenge on them
- 'Had'- the earth has rebelled unexpectedly shocks them. reminds us how we abuse the earth's resources and expect no retribution
- 'Wizened'- old/ frail or it can representnknowledge. For old/ frail-vthey don't respect it. If it represents intelligence- they underestimate it.
- The earth,if old, remembers all their crimes and uses them to punish them.
- 'Wizened'- links humans/ mature- humans age etc, but also acts as a contrast- nature is the enemy
- Oxymoron "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear"
- Connects the start/end- following the vicious attack, they now say its 'nothing'
- The wind can attack them, but they cant stop it and it will eventually destroy all their protection
- Direct Address "We are prepared: we build our houses squat"
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