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... Seamus Heaney Poetry Commentaries Storm on the Island In the poem "Storm on The Island", Heaney focuses on the ideas of isolation and living so close to nature. The poem mainly depicts on the destructive powers of nature, for example, the wind is so strong that the spray hits "the very windows" of people's houses. The poem challenges the idea that island life is idyllic - the sea is not "company" but like a cat, seemingly tame, yet apt to turn "savage" and spit. At first living on the island may have advantages like "no stacks/Or stocks that can be lost", but disadvantages soon appear like the absence of trees (cannot hear the sound of the wind approaching the "leaves and branches" and no "natural shelter". The poem also uses a lot of military metaphors: the wind (like a fighter-bomber) "dives and strafes" while space is a "salvo" and air bombards. Perch In the

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