My epic padlet by Mariah Azhar Year 10 https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2020-06-05 14:25:50 UTC 2020-06-05 14:47:05 UTC hello@padlet.com Strom on the island by Seamus Heaney 16marazha https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613083784 2020-06-05 14:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613083784 Context AO3: 16marazha https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613091107 Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland in 1939. Much of Heaney's poetry is centred on the countryside and farm life that he knew as a boy. He was appointed professor at oxford university in 1989 and was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1995.The poem is set around a story of a small isolated cottage near the sea in a storm and the exposure to the elements.]]> 2020-06-05 14:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613091107 Themes : 16marazha https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613101325 The poem looks at the conflict between nature and man and peoples fear of the weather . Man and nature are in opposition to one another (they don't exactly have a harmonious relationship). The people are trying their best to survive, but nature is throwing the works at them, adding insult to injury with a dried-up, tough land and vicious windstorms. ]]> 2020-06-05 14:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613101325 Structure : 16marazha https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613109448 The structure of the poem Storm on the Island reflects the feelings of the islanders. At first the community feels safe and secure and words such as 'prepared', 'rock' and 'good slate' convey this sense of solidity and assurance.
The poem is in blank verse with 19 lines . There are 10 syllables in each line .]]> 2020-06-05 14:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613109448 Images of terrorist violence can be found throughout the poem . Such as 'blasts' describe the literal term but also represents the storm of violence happening in 'Northern Ireland' during the Troubles . 16marazha https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613113652 2020-06-05 14:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613113652 First eight letters of the title spell out the word ' STORMONT' the name of the government buildings in Northern Ireland . The word Ireland also has a phonetic similarity to Ireland . Therefore the poem works on two levels : as a description of the storm and as an extended metaphor for the political situation in Northern Ireland . 16marazha https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613118013 2020-06-05 14:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/16marazha/rx3hs2rrj0752y6d/wish/613118013