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Mind Map by Heather Crosby, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Heather Crosby
almost 9 years ago
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Analysis of Storm on the
Island by Seamus Heaney
- Vocabulary
- squat - low level
- wizened - old,
shrivelled or
experienced
- stooks - corn
sheaves
bunched up
- pummels -
violent, painful,
punches
- salvo - rapid
simultaneous firing of
artillery
- squat - low level
- Poetic Techniques
- Caesura (middle of
a sentence :) - forces
reader to stop and
think about what
you've read
- Simile - 'spits
like a tame
cat'
- End stop - at the end of a
line, makes the reader stop
and think
- Enjambment
- Conversational style
- draws you in
- Uses 3rd person
(we) - makes it a
collective
experience
- Uses 2nd
person (you) -
talks to you as
a person,
engages you
- Assonance - roof, good
- emphasises people's
link to
nature/land/growing
food
- emphasises people's
link to
nature/land/growing
food
- Alliteration - stacks/stooks
- Oxymoron -
exploding
comfortably
- Violent words
lines 16-19 - hits,
spits, savage,
strafes, salvo,
bombarded
- Caesura (middle of
a sentence :) - forces
reader to stop and
think about what
you've read
- The poem is written in blank verse
- No rhyming pattern
- Lack of rhyme -
conflict, the
storm of Irish
troubles
- Lack of rhyme -
conflict, the
storm of Irish
troubles
- Follows iambic penameter
- Line 2 stressed words give
impression of
home/building/foundations
- Heartbeat
rhythm - his
homeland?
- Line 2 stressed words give
impression of
home/building/foundations
- No rhyming pattern
- Interpretation of the poem
- Natural power - the
elements
- Last line -
there's nothing
they can do,
nature has all
the power
- Last line -
there's nothing
they can do,
nature has all
the power
- Fear and isolation
- Man's relationship with nature
- Metaphor for the 'troubles' in Ireland
- First part of the title spell
Stormont - name of the
Irish Parliament
- Title has no article (the or
a) - open to interpretation
- Title has no article (the or
a) - open to interpretation
- First part of the title spell
Stormont - name of the
Irish Parliament
- Natural power - the
elements
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