Kamikaze

Question 1

Beatrice Garland

Answer 1

Doesn’t have direct experience.About kamikaze pilots and the indoctrination of them due to higher power.He also wrote about the bushido code which if you diss honoured your country you had to commit suicide.

Question 2

The dark shoals of fishes //flashing silver as their bellies // swivelled towards the sun.

Answer 2

Repeated sibilants mimics the sea and shows the beauty and grace of nature.The enjambement increases the speed of the poem showing how quickly nature is making pilot to return.Sun also represents japan’s flag to show patriotism

Question 3

A shaven head full of powerful incantations

Answer 3

Shaved head symbolises loss of identity and powerful incantations is from all the propaganda the government indoctrinated pilot with

Question 4

He must wondered which have been the better way to die.

Answer 4

He is metaphorically dead as death surrounds him.He is treated like a ghost and shows cyclical structure as at start and end has no identity.Both options offer a kind of death this line implies that soldiers are controlled only by governement.

Question 5

STRUCTURE

Answer 5

.ISN’Tnarrated by pilot because identity lost .
.free verse juxtaposes how controlled pilot was by government.