storm on the island

Lines 1-5

• repeates the word we, he is trying to make them sound safe.
• they have prepered the selves by making there walls thicker, and other things.
• there is asonense in the poem, this means the repatition of a vowel.
• the word wizerned can mean sriveled and old or wise and experienced. nothing grwos on the island.

In line 1 there is an examlpe caesura, this is an delibarate pause. at the end of lines 1 and 2 there are end stops which are commors and full stops. the rest of the verse uses enjambment. the first two lines have pauses in them, because they are prepering for the storm.

Lines 6-10

• full blast comes full expected like a sharp gust of wind.

line 7

• conversational tone.

line 8

• chorus, the wind keeps repeating itself.

storm on the island

key themes

• natural power
• fear and isolation
• peoples relationship with nature

key technices

• blank verse
• enjambment
• caesura
• assonance
• oxymoron
• metaphores and symilies

First impressions

a) This peom is about seamus heaneys father digging.

b) The word that struck me were FATHER because he keeps refering too his father.

c) Seamus is different to his father because he wants to become famouse with a pen not a spade.

seamus heaney digging

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seamus heaney digging

Seamus heany digging: about the poem.

1.At he beggining of the peom, seamus is sitting in his bedroom looking on at his father digging for patatos.

2.The sight of his father digging reminds him of 20 years ago.

3. Seamus also thinks about his granfather digging.

4. The moemory he thinks about is taking him milk and he drinks it off and carries on working.

5. seamus is going to use the skill of writing.

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