Storm on the Island Flashcards

1
Q

Name two key ideas

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  • Man vs Nature
  • Community
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2
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What are two pieces of context

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  • Northern Ireland is divided by nationalists (Catholics) and UK loyalists (Protestants) which caused ‘The Troubles’
  • STROMONT is the name of the NI parliament signifying the poem is politically charged
  • Death of a Naturalist = presents unromanticised version of nature
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3
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What is the poets message

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  • Brutality and conflict can be negated by the power of a community
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4
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What poems can SOTI be compared to

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  • Ozymandius
  • The Prleude
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5
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What are the structural features of SOTI

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  • One long stanza = ongoing tension - never-ending paranoia
  • Inconsistent rhyme = reflects omnipotence of nature
  • Iambic pentameter = controlled rhythm = humans resisting nature
  • Cyclical structure = resilience of islanders
  • Volta = shift in tone from optimism - fear
  • Enjambment = overwhelmed replicating the feelings of the islanders
  • Caesura = represents the calm before the storm
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6
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We are prepared: we

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  • plural pronoun
  • declarative phrase
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7
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Wizened earth

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  • metaphor
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8
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As you see

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  • irony
  • colloquial anguage
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9
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Nor are there trees//which might prove company

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  • personification
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10
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Blast:

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  • onomatopoeic
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11
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Tragic chorus

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  • Greek tragedies
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12
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Listen to the thing you fear//forgetting that it pummels your house too

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  • personification
  • plosive
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13
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But there are no trees, no natural shelter

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  • metaphor
  • caesura
  • repetition
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14
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Exploding comfortably

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  • oxymoron
  • personification
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15
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The flung spray hits//the very window

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  • metaphor
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16
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Spits like a tame cat//turned savage

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  • juxtaposition
  • zoomorphism
17
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Wind dives//and strafes invisibly

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  • lexical field of war
18
Q

Space is a salvo

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  • sibilance
  • lexical field of war
19
Q

Bombarded with the empty air

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  • plosive
  • lexical field of war
20
Q

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear

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  • oxymoron
  • metaphor
  • caesura