Storm on the Island Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
Q
Storm on the island sink walls
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Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate This wizened earth has never troubled us
2
Q
Storm on the island
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So that you can listen to the thing you fear Forgetting that it pummels your house too
3
Q
Storm on the island exploding comfortably
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You might think that the sea is company, Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
4
Q
Storm on the island tame cat
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spits like a tame cat turned savage
5
Q
Storm on the island strafes
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while wind dives And strafes invisibly.
6
Q
Storm on the island huge nothing
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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
7
Q
Storm on the island writer
A
Seamus Heaney
