Storm on the Island
Cards (22)
- What are the main themes of "Storm on the Island"?
- Which poem is "Storm on the Island" compared to?
- What message does the poem convey about the community's preparedness for the storm?
- How does the confidence of the community change throughout the poem?
- What literary form is used in "Storm on the Island"?
- What does the blank verse in the poem mirror?
- What does the first stanza of the poem represent?
- What does the use of first person plural indicate in the poem?
- What is the significance of the loose iambic pentameter in the poem?
- What is the turning point or volta in the poem?
- What does the caesura in the poem represent?
- Who is the poet of "Storm on the Island"?
- What historical context influenced Heaney's writing?
- What was Heaney's stance on English literature?
- What does the phrase "your house 100" imply in the poem?
- What does the oxymoron "exploding comfortably" suggest?
- What does the sibilance in "space is a salvo" convey?
- How does the semantic field of war function in the poem?
- What does the line "Strange, it is a huge nothing we fear" imply?
- What does the caesura in the quote “we are prepared, we built our houses…” signify?
- What does the inclusive pronoun in the poem suggest about humans?
- What chaos can leaves and branches cause according to the poem?