storm on the island

• "we are prepared, we build houses squat" - caesura/ sense of security
• "you can listen to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too" - danger imagery
• "spits like a tame cat turned savage" - similie/ storm is wild and uncontrollable
• "we are bombarded by the empty air" - military metaphor/ relates to air strikes
• "strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear" - juxtaposition/ irony/ something that cannot be seen is so frightening