Preparation
This storm isn't these islanders' first rodeo. The people in this poem seem to have been dealing with this for some time. They build their houses in preparation for these vicious storms with heavy-...
What's Not There
Why explain what's actually around you when you can write a perfectly good poem describing what's not there? Maybe Heaney, being the master of description that he is, wanted to challenge himself wi...
Violence
This is not a Chuck Norris action movie. Nor is there a single weapon mentioned in this poem. No one, as far as we can tell, even has to whip out a Band-Aid at any point. However, this poem has a s...