KAMIKAZE Flashcards
What viewpoint is the poem written in and its effect - kamikaze
The daughters POV to show just how her father was shunned from society
What’s the quote which has contracts of life and death
with a flask of water, a samurai sword
What’s the quote linking to Bushidō? (the samurai code of honour)
a samurai sword
What’s the quote referencing to propaganda / he’s under a spell
full of powerful incantations
which quote can be argued as an euphemism for suicide
one-way journey into history
what’s the quote linking celebration and the beauty of nature
like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea
what is the effect of using adjectives “blue” and “green” and “translucent” sea
blue- serenity
green- natural world
translucent- he’s seeing through the propaganda (“powerful incantations”)
What’s the quote which links sibilance and fishing imagery
“dark shoals of fishes.. flashing silver”
what could “silver” in the previous quote mean
riches and rarity, showing how nature’s intense beauty helped the pilot change his mind
What is the quote which begins to darken the tone in kamikaze
a tuna, the dark prince, muscular and dangerous
what’s the effect of describing the fish as a “dark prince”
its important and deserving of respect and honour - like the pilot
“dark” suggests the night or he’s entering a sinister and dangerous time of his life.
What’s the effect of describing the tuna as “dangerous”
To show the dangers of nature and possibly the danger of propaganda
What’s the significance of the first full stop after 5 stanzas in kamikaze
marks where his journey should of finished but now indicates the point where he’s turned back. The narrator now moves from guessing on why he turned back to stuff she knows and experienced
What’s the last line in the poem in kamikaze
he must have wondered which was the better way to die
what does the ambivalent ending suggest in Kamakazie
the pilots spirit has already died, it shows how his daughter followed society norms and never asked him, makes both narrator and reader stop and think, emphasised with the 3rd and last full stop
