Storm On The Island Flashcards
1
Q
Point of poem
A
The poets suggestion of fear challenges the alteration of power that we can only give power to what we fear if we let it
2
Q
Evidence for point
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“Nothing that we fear”
Suggest that this is not about the weather and as an Irish Catholic big part of Heaney’s life he humbles the weather to human terms and like Ozymandias with a massive statue
3
Q
“So that you can listen to the thing you fear”
A
Direct adress
Using the word ‘you’ and talking about fear creates a friendly itimacy with the speaker
