Hurricane hits England

Question 1

context

Answer 1

-Guyana to England 1987
-Great Storm of 1987
-cultural identity

Question 2

form

Answer 2

free verse
varied stanza and line length

Question 3

It took a hurricane, to bring her closer
To the landscape

Answer 3

3rd person - separated from the landscape
-reminded her of home

Question 4

It’s gathering rage
Like some dark ancestral spectre
Fearful and reassuring

Answer 4

-personification makes storm sound very powerful
-simile - comparing it to a familial ghost
-juxtaposition - reminds her of home but it’s still a hurricane

Question 5

Talk to me Huracan
Talk to me Oya
Talk to me Shango
And Hattie

Answer 5

-Anaphora - overwhelmed with how connected she suddenly feels
-1st person - shows that she is no longer separated from herself and that she feels connected

Question 6

What is the meaning
Of old tongues
Reaping havoc
In new places?

Answer 6

-rhetorical - feels like storm is checking on her in a forceful manner
-her past is colliding with her life now

Question 7

Their crusted roots
Their cratered graves?

Answer 7

-‘c’ alliteration is trying to mimic the sound of the falling trees
-trees falling at such force that they are creating their own graves

Question 8

Come to let me know
That the earth is the earth is the earth.

Answer 8

-representing the comfort that she now feels
-connection of different places on the earth