Storm On The Island Flashcards
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Q
What is the context of storm on the island
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Heaney is a northern Irish port born in Northern Ireland but catholic and moved to the republic. He wrote mostly about the landscape and rural life of Ireland and grew up in a village as part of a farming community leading to most poems abojt rural life.
Part of the 3 poem segment in the collection of “death of a naturalist” focusing on the Arab islands are used traditionally in Irish poetry as a symbol of Irish culture
