Kamikaze

Question 1

How do you spell the title?

Answer 1

Kamikaze

Question 2

Who wrote the poem?

Answer 2

Garland

Question 3

Form and Strucuture

Answer 3

It is mainly narrated in third person from the daughter. This creates distance from the daughter and the piolet

The daughters voice is heard directly in the latter stanzas. There are also honts from the grand children’s voices and reported speach from the piolets wife

We never hear from the piolet which shows how he is cut away from society

The first 5 stanzas are all 1 sentence showing how she thinks the piolet would have been thinking the full stop at the end of the 5th stanza could represent the plane landing

The last stanza tells us about the treatment of the piolet when he got back

Question 4

Feelings and Attitudes

Answer 4

Sorrow/regret
Shame
Patrioism

Question 5

Describe the poet?

Answer 5

Born in London

She was a researcher for the NHS

Question 6

What is Japanies culture like?

Answer 6

Never surrender

Dying is the most honerable thing that you can do for your country
Dishouner would pass through the family

Question 7

What does the title mean?

Answer 7

Divine wind

Question 8

Showing seperation from the story?

Explain

Answer 8

First word

“Her farther embarked at sunrise”

Her farther - shows sepperation from the story like in Ozymandias
Embarked - suggests a general journey (nothing special) however the title suggests a journeynto death
Sunrise - Japan is known as the land of the rising sun (even on their flag) could be hinting at a new life

Question 9

Suggesting coertion and persuadion from the imperial government?

Answer 9

“powerful incantations”

Question 10

Showing how piolets would never be forgoten?

Answer 10

“a one way

Journey into history”

Question 11

Start of second stanza suggetsing that the plan is turning around?

Answer 11

“but”

Question 12

Simile showing how he thought there would be celebrations when he (the piolet returned)

Answer 12

“at the little fishing boats
strung out like buntings”

Irony as there will be no celebrations
The simile is homely and pretty and contrasts with war

Question 13

Beautiful imagry to show the world he was going to leave?

Answer 13

“On a green-blue translucent sea”

Question 14

Sibilance which could represent the movements of the fish or the dangers ahead?

Answer 14

“The dark shoals of fishes
flashing silveras thier bellies
swivelled towards the sun”

“Dark”- could forshadow his negative return

Question 15

Line includong a death memorial

Explain?

Answer 15

“Built cairns of pear-grey pebbles”

A cairn is a inncocent childrens game (stacking) or it could be a galic burrial site

It could forshadow his social death when he gets back home

Question 16

What does the enjarbment and lack of punctuation in line 22-23 suggest?

Answer 16

The daugheter thinks that the piolet may have got caught up in his childhood memmories

(In this section he is talkign about cairns and childhood memories)

Question 17

Who’s boat?

Explain?

Answer 17

• yes, grandfarthers boat -

She may be indoctrinating her children against grandpa althoguh she doesn’t seem to belive it herself

He may go on the boat every day to get away from the shame perhaps hoping that he won’t come back (he will die)

The interjection of direct soeahc reminds us that she is talking to her children

Question 18

Descrining tuna as dangerous explain (explain the end stop)

Answer 18

“a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.”

Descrinign the tuna as dangerous tells us thst he is not a coward

The end stop signals the end of he flight. The poem should habe ended hear with his death but instead we follow the man

Question 19

Irony because he survived but is being treated as if he were dead?

Answer 19

“As although he no longer excisted”

Question 20

Showing the inncocence of youth?

Answer 20

“only we children still chattered and laughed”

Alliteration and omapatapia

Question 21

Indirect speach from the grandmother (the piolets wife)

Explain

Answer 21

“she said, he must have wondered
which had been the better way to die.”

The final short sentence may be highlighting the destruction of patriosm

Either way the story ends with death