Storm on the Island

Cards (8)

  • Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. this wizened earth has never troubled us
  • You might think that the sea is company, exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
  • Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear
  • So that you listen to the thing you fear forgetting it pummels you too
  • Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth has never troubled us
    Sibilance and consonance- conflict is sinister
    Extended metaphor poem
    Wizened- ironic- political state is damaging
    Sink- shows how building divides between people causes society to sink
  • You might think that the seas is company, exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
    Personification- isolating themselves through conflict between christianities
    Juxtapositon- comfortable using bombs and weapons + predicting bombs will come closer
  • So you listen to the thing you fear forgetting it pummels your house too 

    Direct address- collective, emphasises togetherness
    Actions have consequences
    Violence destroys homes and lives through own fear
    Angery, fricative f
  • Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear
    Collective pronoun- togetherness
    Moral lesson- asking reader to question normality of conflict
    Oxymoron- the nothing they fear has a hold of them? fear of nothing?