soti

• 'we are prepared: we build our houses squat'


  • too confident in the declarative- feel that they can overpower nature which shows arrogance
  • they have adapted their lives to resisting nature
  • 'we' collective voice- they are together as a community fighting this threat but they are isolated by their fears.
• informal tone


  suggests islanders have become used to the threat of nature, it is part of their life enduring it: the storm is a regular occurance.
• cyclical structure- half rhyme between first and last rhyming couplet 'houses squat/ good slate' 'empty air/huge nothing that we fear'


  • connects preperation and their fear