6️⃣ Kamikaze

Question 1

Who wrote it?

Answer 1

Beatrice Garland

Question 2

What were kamikaze pilots?

Answer 2

Japanese suicide pilots who would fly into planes in an attempt to destroy enemy ships

Question 3

Japanese culture

Answer 3

Very patriotic
Taught children that its is honourable to die for your country and it’s the greatest thing you can do
Principles of Samurai

Question 4

WWW2 statistic

Answer 4

Out of 3860 pilots that died only 19% managed to hit a ship

Question 5

First stanza
Her father embarked at sunrise
with a flask of water, a samurai sword in the cockpit, a shaven head

Answer 5

Allusions to Japan
Land of the rising sun
Kamikaze pilots
Patriotic culture

Lists
Indifferent to what is coming

Question 6

Journey into history

Answer 6

Metaphor for suicide mission and allusion to kamikaze pilots

Question 7

full of powerful incantations

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Connotations of spells magic
Brainwashed into set beliefs
Patriotism and honour samurai principles

Question 8

He must have looked down

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Modal phrase
Tautologically repeated as a refrain
Emphasis lack of truth in memories
Explicit memories s

Question 9

Semantic field of nature

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Green blur translucent sea
Dark shoals
Fishes
Sun
Water
Pebbles

Engaging description reminds us of his humanity and how he doesn’t want to die

Question 10

Arching in swathes

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Aggressive sea is a Metaphor for patriotism

Question 11

Figure of 8

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Infinity symbolises continuous memories s

Question 12

Dark shoals of fishes flashing silver

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Sibilance imitates sounds of nature

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Refrain of sun

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Japan is land of rising sun Kamikaze pilots

Question 14

Built cairns of pearl gray pebbles

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Stacks of storms - memories
Pearl harbour allusion to kamikaze pilots
Pearl is symbol for value of life

Question 15

Shore, slat sodden, awash in the cloud marked mackerel

Answer 15

Sublease and alliteration emphasises beauty of nature in the semantic field created

Question 16

Stanza 6 never spoke again no longer
No longer existed

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Semantic field of neglect and abandonment

Question 17

as though he no longer existed

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symbolises the effect in public and close friends

Question 18

Still chattered and laughed

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Native innocence lives juxtaposes seriousness of honour and what happened

Question 19

Was no longer the father we loved

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Oxymoron and metaphor
Society was so patriotic

Question 20

Which had been the better way to die

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Rhetorical question evoked for reader questioning the morality of war

Question 21

Perspective

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3rd person creates distance from subject
Detached omniscient narrator shows cold emotional distance daughter was encouraged to create

Question 22

Decreasing sentence length

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Life amounts to nothing
Living death
Futility of avoiding fate set out for you

Question 23

Form

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Narrative
7 stanzas
No rhyme or regular rhythm pattern

Question 24

6 line stanzas structural juxtaposition

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6 line stanzas are controlled reflecting order and obedience expected of a solider and patriotic society
Juxtaposed by free verse and enjambemnt which is an attempt for freedom within confines of stanza structure
Own desires as an individual as he doubts his obedience
Conflict between military commitment and cultural pride and desire for life and freedom

Question 25

Final sentence

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Couplet comparably short syntax to rest of the poem
Poignant memory

Question 26

Narrative form

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Framed for layers of memory
Societies memories and traditions versus personal familial memories