Storm On The Island - Seamus Heaney Flashcards

1
Q

We are prepared: we build our houses ______ / Sink walls in ____ / ____ with good slate’

A

Squat, rock, roof

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2
Q

‘It ________ your house too’

A

Pummels

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3
Q

‘_________ comfortably’

A

Exploding

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4
Q

‘We just sit tight while ______ dives / and ______ invisibly… space is a salvo’

A

Wind , Strafes

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5
Q

‘Strange, it is huge nothing that we ____’

A

Fear

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6
Q

Themes:

A

-Power of nature
-power of humans
-emotions (fear)

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