Storm on the Island

• Huge nothing
• Exploding comfortably
• use of collective pronouns we and our
• You fear ———-> we fear
• Spits like a tame cat turned savage
• Blast: you know what I mean-
• Bombarded by the empty air
• Raise a tragic chorus in a gale
• No consistent rhyme scheme to highlight how power and control cannot be enforced upon nature: presenting nature as powerful and omniscient ———-> contrasted by the very controlled rhythm which demonstrates the resisting force of the humans against the chaos of the storm
• The title includes the word Stormont which implies that the poem is an extended metaphor for the troubles in Ireland: further emphasising the lack of human power
• Volta

  calm——-> terrified

  we are prepared ———> pummels your house too
• Frequent enjambment overwhelmed with info reinforced by the single stanza structure: alongside the colloquialisms and the iambic pentameter the poem embodies a frightened conversational tone