Seamus Heaney's Storm on the Island and Walt Whitman's Patrolling Barnegat which were written in 1966 and 1856 respectively are two classical poems describing vividly

... How the poems I have studied explored nature and its effect. Seamus Heaney's Storm on the Island and Walt Whitman's Patrolling Barnegat which were written in 1966 and 1856 respectively are two classical poems describing vividly the horror and insecurity experienced by human's during a wild storm. Storm on the Island and Patrolling Barnegat have many similarities and differences, the similarities reside around each writer's description of a storm but the differences are mainly due to the writer's on personal attitude and approach to a storm and how they apply it to their writing. At the beginning of Heaney's Storm on the Island he clearly highlights that they have prepared for a storm "We are prepared; we build our houses squat", Heaney also makes it clear that there is no company or shelter on the island "Nor are there trees that might prove company when it blows full blast". Throughout the poem Heaney is describing

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