Storm on the Island

• ‘Leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale’
• ‘So that you can live in fear forgetting that it pummels your house too’
• ‘No natural shelter’
• ‘Like a tame cat turned savage’
• ‘Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear’
• • Late 1900’s = The Troubles in Ireland
  • Heaney was catholic - about his horrors
  • Futility of all wars
  • Inspired by rural natural world
  • Free verse, iambic pentameter, free verse
• • Threat of nature
  • Oppression
  • Threat of London
  • Futility of war