Storm of the Island

• “We are prepared”

  1. Confident and arrogant humans underestimate nature
  2. Declarative - blunt matter of fact, nonchalant and over confidence
  3. Lexis ’we’ - personal pronoun - collective arrogance of humans - islanders think they have power over nature
  4. Sets view of human arrogance from the start
  5. Confident missguided transcience
• “Spits like a tame cat turned savage“

  1. Capricious, nature is more powerful than they thought
  2. Simile, animalistic, nature is unpredictable and humans thought they were more powerful
  3. ’Savage’ - shoes the sudden uncontrollable change in dominance
  4. Line after volta - capricious
  5. Defeated and underestimated nature
• “It’s a huge nothing that we fear“

  1. Shows strength of nature and if this entity (storm)
  2. Declarative - storm was so dominant they had the islanders hiding - impuissant
  3. Noun ‘Nothing’ - makes us feel elusive, cannot be stopped or controlled
  4. Circular, powerless and realisation of power of nature
  5. Hopelessness and fromidableness
• “ We build our houses squat”
• “Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs”