Storm On The Island

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  • Created by: loupardoe
  • Created on: 02-01-17 12:48

Summary

  • speaker explains how the community's houses are well equipped to last through storms, bulit of strong materials and low to the ground
  • the land is not the type to grow hay or trees, which can be difficult in high winds, but that means the landscape is wide open
  • speakers discusses the sea's behaviour in a storm- the cliffs do not protect the people, and spray can still reach them
  • speaker compares the wind and the air to gunfire and concludes that it is the air that frightens people in a storm: 'a huge nothing'

key aspects of the poem

  • Heaney uses the plural pronoun 'we' to create a viewpoint which is that of the whole community
  • several examples of personification, similes and metaphors which Heaney uses to imply intention or emotion on the part of nature and the weather
  • Heaney creates a conversational tone using informal direct address and colloquial phrases in blank verse
  • semantic field relating to attack which increases in strength through the poem

key setting: exposed cottages on Ireland's coast

  • Heaney conjures up…

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