kamikaze

Question 1

enough fuel for a

Answer 1

one way journey into history

Question 2

he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats…

Answer 2

…like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea

Question 3

like a huge flag waved ( ) …

Answer 3

… in a figure of eight

Question 4

the dark shoals of …

Answer 4

…fishes flashing silver ( ) sun

Question 5

the turbulent inrush of…

Answer 5

…breakers bringing their fathers boat safe

Question 6

shore…

Answer 6

…salt-sodden awash

Question 7

once a tuna, the dark…

Answer 7

…prince, muscular, dangerous

Question 8

treated him as though…

Answer 8

…he no longer existed

Question 9

gradually we too…

Answer 9

…learned

Question 10

this was no longer…

Answer 10

…the father we loved

Question 11

he must have wondered…

Answer 11

…which had been the better way to die

Question 12

who wrote this poem?

Answer 12

beatrice garland

Question 13

what viewpoint is it written in?

Answer 13

THIRD person- shows the distance between the pilot and daughter

switches to FIRST- as she still “chatted and laughed”

Question 14

kamikaze meaning?

Answer 14

divine/god wind

reference to a typhoon that destroyed the Mongol ships in the 13th century and saved Japan from invasion

Question 15

breakers meaning?

Answer 15

large wave that breaks into foam on the shore

implies as soon as the father returned he was seen as nothing compared to the honourable brave man before (wave-foam)

Question 16

turbulent meaning?

Answer 16

inner conflict

Question 17

fish symbolism?

Answer 17

extended metaphor to symbolise how the father is trapped in the cultural traditions

Question 18

structure of the poem

Answer 18

third/first person
seven 6 line stanzas

free verse (doesnt rhyme)
SYMBOLISES the freedom he lacked but broke and returned

Question 19

expand on “shore salt-sodden awash”

Answer 19

silibilance, ocean sounds

depicts the tide which returns like he does