Storm On the Island-Warfare
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- Storm On the Island-Warfare
- Language
- Alliteration- 'blows'blasts'-talking about the wind but referring to explosions in warfare
- Violent verb-'pummels'-idea of something being punched
- Oxymoron-'exploding comfortably'-explosive word-deliberate because the main method of attack by the IRA was through bombing
- Imagery (metaphor) of fighter plane diving down and strafing-'dives' and 'strafes'.Readers would be very familiar with what he is saying and feeling.
- 'Savage'-description of storm being like a cat emphasises the word 'savage'-suggesting that the people in the island become in the expectations of what they accept/the civil war turns people into savages
- 'Salvo' and 'bombarded'-it is clear that he is talking about the war and his anger is that it is a war that his countrymen are accepting and also anger at the British for allowing the war to continue
- Structure and form
- Lack of rhymes-reflects people's lack of control
- Dramatic Monologue-pronoun 'we' represents a wider cultural experience-allows to identify the speakers character from hat they are saying-Heaney is taking on the persona of a person describing the horrors of the war.
- Context
- Storm on the Island-STORMONT-Heaney is talking about a northern Irish parliament in East Belfast:he wants to make sure the readers know the poem is all about Northern Ireland and its government
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