Storm On The Island Flashcards
What is the quote “Wizened earth has never troubled us” using as a method?
Personification using Pathetic Fallacy
What does the quote “Tragic chorus” (and “Exploding comfortably”) use as a method?
Oxymoron
What is the quote “strafes” “salvo” and “bombarded” using as a method?
Lexical field of war
What quote uses pathetic fallacy to show the power of nature through the barren island, as a reflection that nature can overpower humanity
“Wizened earth has never troubled us”
What quote uses Oxymoron’s to show nature’s unpredictability and capacity to destroy as well as build -can be both life-giving and destructive
“Tragic chorus” and “exploding comfortablyl
What quote uses a lexical field of war to reflect the possible violence and destructive power of nature over humanity, to the point we are helpless to fight back.
“Strafe” “salvo” “bombarded”
Who is the poet of storm on the island?
Seamus Heaney
What is Heaney experience with Power/Nature/Society?
Grew up in the troubles and thus he knows about the unpredictability of life
What is the message of storm on the islands?
-Nature is so powerful we can’t do anything to stop it
What is the analysis of the quote “Wizened earth has never troubled us”
(Relatable imagery)
Reveals that the island is old and barren and nature is hostile-
no crops /plants allowed to flourish as vicious storms won’t let it-
(Shows nature as overpowering)
(+suggests island as intelligent for not standing up to natures power)
What is the analysis of the quote “Tragic chorus” and “Exploding comfortably”
Shows nature to be unpredictable with capacity to destroy as well as build. Nature can be both gift giving and destructive ,with little warning.
(+Irony -we can’t understand nature let alone defend ourselves against it.)?
What is the analysis of the quote “Strafes” “Salvo” and “bombardment”
Reflects possibility of violence and destructive power of nature, + how we can only defend ourselves and hope, as there is no fighting back nature. -Nature is aggressor when we want it to be.
Good comparison to storm on the island?
Prelude? -SOTI presents nature as aggressive and unpredictable, putting humanity and the island they inhabit alike at its mercy, whereas in prelude it treats the figure with nurturing and care -Yet both poems show natures power which is not fully understood in its complexity.
(What about for conflict? Is this possible??)
