Hurricane Hits England- Grace Nichols

Hurricane Hits England- Grace Nichols

• About 1987 Great Storm in England
• Stanzas and lines vary in length to show unpredictability
• Present tense to involve you
• Title- "Hurricane Hits England"- alliteration- news headline
• 4. "Howling ship of the wind"- metaphor to capture the wildness of the hurricane
• 6. "Like some dark ancestral spectre"- sinister family ghost- simile to capture fear
• 7. "Fearful and reassuring"- paradox to show writers mixed emotions, ambiguous feelings, confusion- haunting
• 8+9. "Talk to me Huracan, Talk to me Oya"- Gods and Goddesses- personifies- come from homeland like family. Chant- desperation and frustration
• 12. "Sweeping back home cousin"- swift movement-hurricane. Taking her home- memory
• 13+14. "Tell…