Storm On The Island

Question 1

Who wrote storm on the island

Answer 1

Seamus Heaney

Question 2

Key idea of storm on the island

Answer 2

View of nature in a realidtic image of its danger and violence
Nature vs Man

Question 3

Language used in Storm on the Island

Answer 3

Plosives (Blast)
Personification, Hyperbole (we are bombared by the empty air)
Juxtaposition (it is a huge nothing we fear
Short sentences (The window spits like a tame cat)

Question 4

“We are prepared”

Answer 4

Arrogance by declaring this
They are confident shown by how they make this statement.
Confident in their ability to overpower nature

Question 5

“Spits like a tame cat Turned savage”

Answer 5

1. Mistaken belief that they tarned nature - like how a car turns against its owner
2. Replicates how the islanders never owned nature. It was always more poeerful thsn them

Question 6

Effect of plosives “blows full Blast:”

Answer 6

Plosives give sense of violence and agression, suggests nature attacks the island

Question 7

Effects of dramatic monologue

Answer 7

Effects of this means that the poem is like a one way conversation. Reflects that the islanders have nobody to help during the storm

Question 8

Effects of volta (shift in feelings)

Answer 8

Poem begins optimistically but the tone shifts to fear.
Could show that tit’s the final calm beforebthe storm/inability of islanders to see the storm