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Analysis of Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney
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GCSE English language Mind Map on Analysis of Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney, created by Heather Crosby on 11/02/2016.
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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
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
Alliteration - stacks/stooks
Oxymoron - exploding comfortably
Violent words lines 16-19 - hits, spits, savage, strafes, salvo, bombarded
The poem is written in blank verse
No rhyming pattern
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?
Interpretation of the poem
Natural power - the elements
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
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