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Storm on the Island line. •Strong opening creates a feeling of saftey, compared to the last - We are prepared: we build our houses squat, conflict with mother nature, Caesura →Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. Unwanted on the island. describes earthas old. 1 This wizened earth has never troubled us With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks 5 it. emphasises lonliness, protection, Or stooks that can be lost. Nor are there trees Trepetition, sense of unity - lack of uncertain which might prove company when it blows full Blows + blast = Alliteration : feeting Blast: you know what I mean - leaves and branches harshness of storm - volent of nature can raise a tragic chorus in a gale → violent verb: makes it sound forceful. greater Impact10 at start So hat you can listen to the thing you fear Forgetting that it pummels your house too. But there are no trees, no natural shelter. of line. You might think that the sea is company, Oxymoron: Juxtaposes the feelings also emphasises that they have done this before. 15 Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits The very windows, spits like a tame cat Turned savage. We just sit tight while wind dives And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo. Juxta -position We are bombarded by the empty...
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Alternative transcript:
air. Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. oxymoron suggests that Seamus Heaney our fear is a Paradox, there (1939-2013) is nothing to fear or that we fear the nothingness of the invisible wind- power. Caesura slows the pace of the line and emphasis the second 'no'. 14 of fear and safety. anoma tapaeic sound imagery. simile, the wave hitting the rocks, violent image of the sea. + wait for it to pass over. Sibilance. Subside, visual image. tellingus that the people have to live with it daily so they are used to it → living with conflict Military metaphors; salvo, Strafe, bombared relate to air attacksS- The poet is drawing compansions with the wind and human aircraft, Suggesting that they are only what we make them. * Themes/Emotions: weather, nature, war with the weather. * Conflict between nature and man and Peoples fear of the weather, * Hint of war and conflict in the way the weather is described with "Bombardment" and "salvo"