Storm on the Island
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- Created on: 12-04-21 11:35
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- Storm on the Island
- Seamus Heaney
- Form
- Poem written in blank verse
- mirrors pattern of everyday speech
- makes it sound like a conversation
- mirrors pattern of everyday speech
- 'We' - shows that all are involved
- a collective and communal experience
- Poem is in 1 stanza - compact and sturdy just like the houses
- Poem written in blank verse
- Contrasting descriptions of safety and fear
- narrator uses lots of words to do with safety and security
- happens at the beginning
- tone changes and sense of danger increases
- more familiar things become more frightening
- narrator uses lots of words to do with safety and security
- Violent imagery
- storm is described as violent
- warlike terms
- emphasises danger and effects of the storm
- warlike terms
- uses of similes, metaphors and personification
- storm is described as violent
- Structure
- Poem shifts from security to fear
- 'but no' seems to be a turning point (Volta)
- caesura reflects the last moments of calm before the storm
- Storm on the Island
- Seamus Heaney
- Form
- Poem written in blank verse
- mirrors pattern of everyday speech
- makes it sound like a conversation
- mirrors pattern of everyday speech
- 'We' - shows that all are involved
- a collective and communal experience
- Poem is in 1 stanza - compact and sturdy just like the houses
- Poem written in blank verse
- Contrasting descriptions of safety and fear
- narrator uses lots of words to do with safety and security
- happens at the beginning
- tone changes and sense of danger increases
- more familiar things become more frightening
- narrator uses lots of words to do with safety and security
- Violent imagery
- storm is described as violent
- warlike terms
- emphasises danger and effects of the storm
- warlike terms
- uses of similes, metaphors and personification
- storm is described as violent
- Direct addresses
- involvement of reader in his fear by saying 'you'
- Use of sounds
- Forceful sounds 'blast'
- demonstrates the strength of nature
- poem also uses assonant and sibilant sounds to reflect the noise of the wind and waves
- Forceful sounds 'blast'
- First eight letter of the title spell 'storming'
- Name given to Northern Ireland's Parliament buildings
- storm could be violent political disturbance
- Context
- Name given to Northern Ireland's Parliament buildings
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