kamikaze Flashcards
enough fuel for a
one way journey into history
he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats…
…like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea
like a huge flag waved ( ) …
… in a figure of eight
the dark shoals of …
…fishes flashing silver ( ) sun
the turbulent inrush of…
…breakers bringing their fathers boat safe
shore…
…salt-sodden awash
once a tuna, the dark…
…prince, muscular, dangerous
treated him as though…
…he no longer existed
gradually we too…
…learned
this was no longer…
…the father we loved
he must have wondered…
…which had been the better way to die
who wrote this poem?
beatrice garland
what viewpoint is it written in?
THIRD person- shows the distance between the pilot and daughter
switches to FIRST- as she still “chatted and laughed”
kamikaze meaning?
divine/god wind
reference to a typhoon that destroyed the Mongol ships in the 13th century and saved Japan from invasion
breakers meaning?
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)
