storm on the island

• we are prepared: we build our houses squat


  a comunity multiple people, inclusive pronouns
• the wizend earth has ever troubled us


  refers to the earth as wise
• you know what i mean

  conversational
• so that you can listen to the thing you fear

  direct adress
• it pummels your house too


  personifies the wind as violent
• exploding comfortambly


  oxymoron
• spits like a tame cat turned savage


  a simile
• strafes invisably


  military terminology
• bombarded by the empty air


  storm is invisible but powerful
• it is a huge noting that we fear

  fear repeated
• very little stops in the poem potentially suggesting the relentless of war and that their was no breating space
• key themes


  • the power of nature
  • conflict
  • fear and isolation