storm on the island

Question 1

summary

Answer 1

• storm on the island is a poem about humankind and nature.people build their protected communities to live in,nature is so powerful that no community is ever completely safe

Question 2

context

Answer 2

• Seamus Heaney was a Northern Irish poet he often wrote about themes such as childhood,nature and his homeland.

Question 3

intention

Answer 3

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Question 4

themes

Answer 4

• storm on the island is a poem that gives voice to the people who live in fear
• power of human
• power of nature
• war

Question 5

techniques

Answer 5

• simile (spits like a tame cat turned savage) shows how familiar things becomes frightening during the storm
• oxymoron juxtaposes the feeling of fear and safety
• caesura slows the pace of the line and emphasises the second
• metaphors and personification combining to emphasises the danger and effects of the storm

Question 6

language

Answer 6

• storm on the island is full of images of fear and violence.Although the poem begins with images of safety and security (we are prepared) but then is changes from line 6 and a sense of loneliness and fear take over.

Question 7

effect

Answer 7

-the narrator involves the reader in his fear by speaking directly to ‘you’

Question 8

structure

Answer 8

• The poem is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter - blank verse.
• The lines are usually enjambed