Storm on the island by Ted Hughes

Question 1

Summery

Answer 1

• the poem is about mankind and nature.
• The narrator describes how a community thinks it’s well-prepared for a coming storm
• As the poem goes on, their confidence starts to disappear as the storm develops.
• The ending of the poem describes the fear as the storm hits the island.

Question 2

context

Answer 2

• Seamus Heaney was a Northern Irish poet.
• He won the Nobel Prise for Literature in 1995.
• died in 2013
• He often use to write about the theme of childhood, nature.
• the poem was published in 1966.

Question 3

Intention

Answer 3

• Ted Hughes wants to show how powerful the nature is than human.
• the different between human power and nature power.

Question 4

Themes

Answer 4

• is the ongoing conflict between human and nature.
• power of nature
• power of Human

Question 5

Techniques

Answer 5

• Oxymoron- Juxtaposes the feeling of fear and safety
• The opening of the poem creates a feeling of safety.
• simile - “ spit like a tame cat” shows how familiar things becomes frightening during the storm.
• describes they violent, often warlike term, with similes, metaphor and personification combining to emphasise the danger and effects of the storm.

Question 6

Language

Answer 6

Wizened- dried up
stooks - bundle of a crop stacked together and left in a field to dry.
Strofe - to rake with gunfire at close rage, often from the air.
salvo - lots of guns firing at once.

Question 7

Effect

Answer 7

• the narrator involves the reader in his fear by speaking directly to “you”.
• safety.
• fear.
• helplessness.

Question 8

Structure

Answer 8

*The poem shifts from security to fear. “Burt no”.