'Think that the sea is company, exploding comfortably down on the cliffs' - Oxymoron shows the power of nature and how easy it is for nature to be powerful. The use of the word 'think' suggest that nature (the sea) will allow you to believe that you are a team, a friend but nature is unpredictable and in the end might not be a friend to you.
'Spits like a tame cat turned savage.' - Zoomorophic simile - acts nice and safe but if annoyed will attack - suggest the cat is Ireland.
'Strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo. We are bombarded by empty air. Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.' - Heaney uses words to do with emptiness next to military words to show absence of change is scary; ambigious the islanders/Irish are not scared/ have nothing to be afraid of.
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