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Storm on the Island

Islanders prepare for a storm. The wind comes. What they fear is a huge nothing.

This poem in five words

Islandersbraceagainstnothing

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The quotes

3 big quotes in this poem.

We are prepared: we build our houses squat

Heaney · Storm on the Island · power of nature · conflict

The islanders build low and strong. They think they are ready for the storm.

Spits like a tame cat Turned savage

Heaney · Storm on the Island · power of nature

The sea is a cat that turns wild. Nature that seemed tame is not.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear

Heaney · Storm on the Island · power of nature

The last line. Wind is nothing you can see. It is still what they fear.

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