Storm On the Island Plog 4

The poem is about a group of people on an island getting ready to withstand a ferocious storm. The poem "Storm on the Island" by Seamus Heaney (happy alex?), is a narrative that uses imagery, and personification to convey and add to the overall tone and theme of the poem.
The poem is one stanza long and is literally about a speaker preparing for a storm. The poem begins talking about the supplies the people have, and goes on to discuss the fact that there are no trees on the island and that when the storm acutally arrives that one inadimite object, that can't be seen or captured, can turn all material and physical objects against the people. This object is air and wind. it can rip things apart and destroy lives without ever being caught or punished. The poem ends with the author saying that it is ironic how everyone is so afraid before a storm and the thing that the people fear the most is just one big blob of nothing.
The personification in the poem is a device that cannot be overlooked and adds to the overall tone in the poem of fear and uneasyness. In line 15 the speaker states, "The very windows, spits like a tame cat turned savage." This shows how the wind can break and bend windows to do whatever it wants because of course windows can't really spit. In this poem the wind is the biggest piece of personification because it is in acting in control and with powers.
Overall, the poem sends a message that no matter how powerful or safe you think you are, there is always something much bigger and stronger that is ready to take you down a notch. I believe that the wind was that bigger force in this poem. The personification helped unveil the air's true identity and power because it gave the air human characteristics and put them into play.