storm on the island

• The poem "Storm on the Island" represents the weather as merciless and triumphant
• The language in "Storm on the Island" is rough and rural, giving the speaker a more agricultural tone
• The poet in "Storm on the Island" describes the earth almost like an old friend, personifying it like an old wrinkled man
• The poet in "Storm on the Island" has a slightly ironic tone regarding the lack of arable land and the absence of worry about crops or trees blowing over
• The poet in "Storm on the Island" personifies nature, describing it with semantics as if it were a neighbour
• The poet in "Storm on the Island" uses direct address and talks about fear, creating a friendly intimacy with the speaker
• The poet in "Storm on the Island" uses violent language to suggest the power of the weather as dominant over man
• The poet in "Storm on the Island" uses oxymoron to describe the weather, suggesting that the violence is far off and makes one feel more secure
• The poet in "Storm on the Island" uses simile to describe the weather, undermining its strength and suggesting it is only scary if one chooses to let it
• The poet in "Storm on the Island" uses military metaphors to draw comparisons with the wind and human aircraft, suggesting they are alike
• • Military metaphors salvo, strafe, bombardment relate to air attacks
• The cottage represents safety and calm and behind its walls the violence of the weather is undermined. It reflects a conflict between nature and man
• The poet is able to communicate a sense of calm friendliness using asides and very recognisable imagery to describe the attack of the weather
• The poets suggestion of fear challenges the allocation of power, that we only give power to what we fear if we let it
• The poem is about a cottage in a storm being attacked by the weather
• The poet is friendly and speaking in a very calm conversational way to the reader
• The poet shows that sometimes what we fear is not worth being afraid of

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• It ends with "it is a huge nothing that we fear"

  • the storm is invisible - there is nothing solid
  • idea of god - reducing god's power to nothing
  • Behind his walls and well prepared, he doesn't need to fear and so the weather (and god) lose power
• Storm on the Island: The poem looks at a small manmade structure being battered by a storm, it deliberately emphasises the conflict between man
• Storm on the Island: The poem looks at a small manmade structure being battered by a storm, emphasizing the conflict between man and nature
• Storm on the Island: ''it is a huge nothing we fear''