storm on the island

Question 1

who wrote storm on the island

Answer 1

seamus healey

Question 2

what is the context behind the poem

Answer 2

conflicts in Ireland
‘stormont castle”
political

Question 3

“sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate this wisened earth has never troubled us”

Answer 3

consonance harsh sounds
the society he’s describing has shrivelled
when we identify as prod or cath we are sinking our selves - irlend is making that mistake

Question 4

“so that you listen the thing you fear”

Answer 4

metaphor 
direct address 
fricatives of fear 
symbolism: there is no difference between Protestants and Catholics the problem is fear,fear  is what they have in common if the fear  is gone so is the conflict
“listening” they aren’t listening to him

Question 5

“forgetting that it pummels your house too”

Answer 5

when you attack othered it hurts you too

violence destroys everyone’s home even if they don’t think it

Question 6

you might think that the sea is Company. Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs

Answer 6

exploding comfortably = juxtaposition

they are bombing each other so much they are becoming comfortable with it

Question 7

“strange it is a huge nothing that we fear”

Answer 7

“huge nothing” oxymoronic huge impact over nothing

4 lines long the rest were 5 wants the reader to find a solution

Question 8

one stanza

Answer 8



compact like the houses compact means little space in between there foreshadowing on their little differences

Question 9

name all quotes