kamikaze Flashcards
“her father embarked at sunrise with a flash of water a samurai sword”
sibilance the sounds of peace
sun = divinity in japanese culture
water is purifying christian imagery
“Like a huge flag wait first one way then the other in a figure 8”
fish=life
flag= patriotism
figure 8 returns back around = foreshadowing
or infinity
The loose silver of white bait and once a tuna the dark prince muscular dangerous
allusion to the bible-judas betrayed jesus for loose silver coins
japanese royal fam are dangerous
“full of powerful incantations”
under the spell of patriotism and propaganda
“only we children still chatted and laughed till gradually we too learnt to be silent”
volta in the poem breaks a new stanza
gradually shows it was unnatural
chattered grateful to have him back
And sometimes she said he must have wondered which had been the better way to die
moral at the end
he died emotionally
we can assume she let him back into the family as she refers to him to her children as grandfather
what do the regular 6 line stanzas show
how she’s trying to give form to her father
who wrote the poem
beatrice garland
