Storm on the Island
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- Created on: 01-12-19 11:23
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- Storm on the Island
- structure and form
- unpredicatble rhythm/rhyme
- unpredictable natyure of storm
- structural change from images of safety to danger
- finds it hard to contemplate how something that we can't see/touch is the source of immense fear
- directly addresses reader
- makes storm seem more threatening- as though it is happening to you
- "We are prepared: we"
- CAESURA - to show speakers certaincy ansd confidence
- unpredicatble rhythm/rhyme
- beginning
- "the wizened Earth"
- the ADJECTIVE 'wizened' describes the Earth as old and decaying - man is being arrogant towards nature
- "the wizened Earth"
- context
- first 8 letters of the title spell STORMONT meaning the poem could be a metaphor for the conflict that Northern Island
- The conflict in Ireland began during a campaign to end discrimination against the Catholic/nationalist minority by the Protestant/unionist government and police force.
- Heaney was an Irish poet who often talked about his country and nature
- middle
- "spits like a tamed cat Turned savage"
- SIMILE - storm is wild and uncontrollable. Reminds reader that something innocent can become deadly.
- "exploding comfortably"
- OXYMORON - infers that the personified ocean has become accustomed to the power it possesses, therefore, it is indifferent to the negative impacts it can have on humanity.
- "spits like a tamed cat Turned savage"
- end
- "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."
- JUXTAPOSISITON between 'huge' and 'nothing' makes storm even more mancing because human preparation is nveevr enough
- something we can't touch/feel that we fear the most
- "we are bombarded by the empty air."
- “Bombarded” is a DYNAMIC VERB, that relates to air strikes - linking to semantic field of war
- Being hit by “empty air” is a METAPHOR , suggesting that the conflict has no foundation/ is based on nothing.
- "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."
- structure and form
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