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
    • beginning
      • "the wizened Earth"
        • the ADJECTIVE 'wizened' describes the Earth as old and decaying - man is being arrogant towards nature
    • 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.
    • 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.

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