Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Storm on the Island
- "this wizened earth has never troubled
us"
- "wizened"
means old and
shrivelled
- indicates how weather
has battered and beaten
the earth over time
- weather symbolic of
artilllery
- "pummels"
- "strafes"
- creates semantic field of destruction and
torment
- "bombarded"
- "exploding comfortably
down on the cliffs"
- oxymoron
- sea is vicious but
controlled
- not
threatening
- "spits like a tame cat - turned savage."
- simile
- out of control, contradicts the
oxymoron
- enjambment expresses a sudden shock
in behaviour of sea
- "we sit tight while wind dives and strafes"
- nature is superior to man, it
must sit and watch helplessly
- "a huge
nothing"
- Heany uses a
paradox
- nothing has no
size
- S and F sounds create hissing of wind