storm on the island

• forgetting it pummers your: 'Spits like a tame car turned Savage'
• Simile


  • The poet uses a familiar image to describe
• Violent imagery
• Weather as dominant over


  Something that is so powerful and majestic, -suggests the power of the
• This undermines the strength of the weather
• Suggesting it is only scary if we choose to let it
• Juxtaposition - “spits like a tame cat turned savage”


  Calm to aggressive/violent
• Themes- soti


  • Conflict - Nature & man
  • Nature - powerful than anything else
• storm on the island

  seamus heany