Storm On The Island - Seamus Heaney

Question 1

What is the poem about?

Answer 1

Experience of being on a cliff top cottage where you are completely isolated and can do nothing about the weather

Question 2

3 quotes from the poem?

Answer 2

• You might think of the sea as company , exploding comfortably
• it is a huge nothing that we fear
• while wind dives and Strafes invisibly

Question 3

What structural devices are used

Answer 3

Enjambement

short sentences - fear, adrenaline, strikes of wind

Question 4

What themes can Storm on the Island explore? (3)

Answer 4

Power of humans - weakness
Power of nature - weather
Negative emotions (fear)

Question 5

What language devices are used?

Answer 5

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