Kamikaze

Question 1

who wrote the poem?

Answer 1

Beatrice Garland

Question 2

how is the title of the poem significant?

Answer 2

Immediately think of a negative tone as Kamikaze pilots are associated with suicide.

Question 3

pick out 3 key quote from the poem.

Answer 3

1. green-blue translucent sea
2. like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight,
3. they treated him as though he no longer existed

Question 4

how is the poem structured?

Answer 4

the first five stanzas form one sentence which suggests the pilot is caught up in his own thoughts

Question 5

what is the mood at the end of the poem? Include a quote

Answer 5

Ends with a short sentence, symbolises the destructiveness of patriotism. ‘And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die.