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Power and Conflict
Storm on the Island
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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
?