Context

• • Seamus Heaney was a Northern Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and died in 2013.
  • He often wrote about themes such as childhood, nature and his homeland.
  • The poem was published in 1966
• • The narrator describes how a communicty thinks it's well prepared for a coming storm
  • As the poem goes on, their confidence starts to disappear as the storm develops. The power and the sounds of the storm are described
  • The ending of the poem describes the fear as the storm hits the island