When you start to read wind you get the impression that it is going to be a poem about a house on a windy day.

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When you start to read wind you get the impression that it is going to be a poem about a house on a windy day. However this is not the case. The author is trying to illustrate how fierce Mother Nature's army can be. He is making it seem as though the wind is fighting the house and it's human inhabitants. The wind is trying to scare the people, by isolating it, from the rest of civilisation, for the night. "The house has been far out to sea all night".

As the wind travels across the countryside it's destructive qualities become apparent, scaring the people almost to death. " The woods crashing through the darkness". The wind is using the surrounding hills to its advantage by making impacting noise that seems to echo across the valley. "The booming hills".

As well as all this the wind continues it terrorising by stamping like a herd of elephants under the windowsills in the flowerbeds. "Winds stampeding the fields under the window".

The poet tries to illustrate the winds power and strength by saying that the house had become adrift overnight and the wind had carried it to a new location.