Kamikaze Flashcards
Quote 1: ADVENTURE TIME
“Her father embarked at sunrise” embarked makes it sound like a journey or great adventure
Quote 2: signs of brainwashing
“A samurai sword” “ a shaven head”
Quote 3: legacy or history
“Journey into history”
Quote 4: caesura models thought
“But halfway there, she thought,”
Quote 5: celebrate good times bunt but also the sea is kinda beautiful
“Little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea”
Quote 6: flag and infinity
“A huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight” indecisive nature of pilot flag represents his decision and the perpetual cycle of his life
Quote 7: FLASH THEM FOR GLORY
“Dark shoals of fish flashing silver” flashing light as in glory of act
Quote 8: fish imagery to convey how he wants to be safe like his fathers boat
“The turbulent inrush of breakers bringing their fathers boat to safe” he wants to be like the boat
Quote 9:sibilance mimics the sea (in daughters voice)
“Safe to the shore, salt sodden, awash”
S sound back and forth like how father returns
Quote 10: the man used to be formidable and dangerous but is now the immature whitebait
“The loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular , dangerous” father perceived as dangerous for betraying his country
Quote 11: he doesn’t exist
“They treated him as though he no longer existed” they is society
Quote 12: children realise he is a silly Billy
“Till gradually we too learned to be silent” indoctrinated by society
Quote 13: this or that woulda been better?
“He must have wondered which had been the better way to die” metaphorical death - third person adds distance
Form:
Seven regular stanzas = regularity of life
Form: free verse
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