Storm on the Island Flashcards
1
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Name two key ideas
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- Man vs Nature
- Community
2
Q
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
3
Q
What is the poets message
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- Brutality and conflict can be negated by the power of a community
4
Q
What poems can SOTI be compared to
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- Ozymandius
- The Prleude
5
Q
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
6
Q
We are prepared: we
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- plural pronoun
- declarative phrase
7
Q
Wizened earth
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- metaphor
8
Q
As you see
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- irony
- colloquial anguage
9
Q
Nor are there trees//which might prove company
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- personification
10
Q
Blast:
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- onomatopoeic
11
Q
Tragic chorus
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- Greek tragedies
12
Q
Listen to the thing you fear//forgetting that it pummels your house too
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- personification
- plosive
13
Q
But there are no trees, no natural shelter
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- metaphor
- caesura
- repetition
14
Q
Exploding comfortably
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- oxymoron
- personification
15
Q
The flung spray hits//the very window
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- metaphor
16
Q
Spits like a tame cat//turned savage
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- juxtaposition
- zoomorphism
17
Q
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
