Poetry: Storm On The Island(heaney)

Question 1

What are the overarching concepts?

Answer 1

• semantic feild of warfair(which is an extended metaphor)
• semantic feild of nature
• community

Question 2

Describe the context?

Answer 2

POEM IS ABOUT NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE TROUBLES

• he was a Catholic born in Northern Ireland but who moved to the south
• based on the Aran islands(symbolic of Irish culture)

Question 3

Community plan:

Answer 3

“We”-anaphora, first person plural

“So, as you see”-colloquial

“It pummels your house too”-love of community(however the audience will reject the life of violence)

Question 4

Semantic field of nature:

Answer 4

“Wizened earth”-shrivelled/wrinkled with age

“Earth has never troubled us”-personification(implies it troubles other people)

“Branches can raise a trafic chorus in a gale”-enjarbment+imagrey

Question 5

Semantic field of war(WHICH IS DONE THROUGH AN EXTENDED METAPHOR OF CONFLICT IN IRELAND)plan:

Answer 5

“It blows full blast”-extended metaphor(wind-warfair)

“Pummels”-extended metaphor (wind-war machine)

“Exploding”- extended metaphor(sea-IRA bombing)

Question 6

Describe the structure:

Answer 6

• first person plural(but then it changes to you-second person)
• iambic pentamiter(but begins with stressed instead of unstressed)