Storm on the Island: Understanding poems for the weak students

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Storm on the Island

By Seamus Heaney

Understanding poems for the weak students: word by word

Paraphrase of the poem in simple language:

We are confident and prepared to fight the storm by building our houses heavily. 

Our walls made of rock are sunk in the wall and the roof are made of smooth flat plates.

The shrunken/unfriendly earth has never troubled us (the strom is really unfriendly and has caused huge troubled)……

Simplfied meaning of the words in the poem:

Squat: heavily built/solid/low to the ground 

Slate: green, or bluish-purple malapropic rock easily split into flat plates

Wizened: wrinkled/shrunken/unfriendly/worn/withered/barren

Hay: dried grass

Stack: a pile of corn

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