Kamikaze

Question 1

quote 1

Answer 1

her father embarked at sunrise/with a flask of water, a samurai sword

Question 2

quote 2

Answer 2

And though he never came back/my mother never spoke again

Question 3

quote 3

Answer 3

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

Question 4

context

Answer 4

-british poet and typical work immerses herself within someone’s perspective
-father is a kamikaze pilot in wwii
-japan brought into ww2 in 1940
-japans military attitudes founded as codes of honour and self sacrifice which stemmed from tradition of samurai sword
-social and military codes controlled behaviour
-recruit unwilling men by end of war

Question 5

structure

Answer 5

-third person narrative establishes detachment
-perspective shifts emphasising effects of war
-volta from third to first person trauma passed through generations
-divided into sestets
-first 5 linear with enjambment, last 2 gravity of decision cut his life short
-written free verse spontaneity if decision
-enjambment momentum of disrupted mind, robotic manner