Kamikaze Flashcards

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‘Her father embarked at sunrise’

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  • Sibilance - peaceful, reflects the peace he’s supposed to find in death
  • ‘Sunrise’ - link to military flag of rising sun, patriotism, divinity meeting god after honourable death
  • Third person, suggests she’s distancing herself from him, disappointed
  • Duality of fathers identity, split in loyalty, can’t coexist
  • Power of nature and man conflicting
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‘Like a huge flag (…) in a figure of eight’

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  • ‘Flag’ - patriotism, indoctrinated by Japanese culture and societal norms
  • Also symbolises surrender
  • Symbol of infinity, living forever immortally as a hero, also eternal death
  • Physical representation foreshadows his change of mind
  • Nature continues indefinitely, comparison to the transience of humanity
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‘Only we children still chattered and laughed/ till gradually we too learned to be silent’

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  • ‘Gradually’ ‘learned’ - unnatural for children to disown their father, implies the culture at the time is painful and wrong
  • Repetition of ‘t’ sounds, harsh, reflects the harsh treatment towards her father
  • Volta, also suggests unnatural
  • Contrast from enjambment to choppier syntax, breakdown of relationship between father/ family and community
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