kamikaze Flashcards

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who wrote kamikaze

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beatrice garland

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what does the kamikaze pilot have a head full of mean?

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the pilot’s head is described as ‘full of powerul incantatons’.incantations are like spells or affirmations, the kind of thoughts that the pilot has to keep telling himself to help him actually go through with the kamikaze mission, which goes against his natural survial instinct.

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how is power and conflict presented in kamikaze?

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the poem explores the idea of choice and conflict in warfare, and examines the emotional troumas that war creates ,carried down through the genarations.intrestingly, as the little suggests, it looks at war from the view point of a japanesse kamikaze pilot , an unsaul subject for a western writer.

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the themes in the poem kamikaze

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perspectives of family 
innocence of childhood
conflict
patrisittiom
nature
memories
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the themes in the poem kamikaze

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perspectives of family 
innocence of childhood
conflict
patrisittiom
nature
memories
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what’s the structre of kamikaze?

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the poem is written in seven, six-line stanzas.the poem does not ryhme scheme and has no regular rhythmic pattern, though most lines have three or four streeses.the language garland chooses appears to be natural and everyday.

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how is internal conflict shown in kamikaze?

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the poem shows the impact that war has on the war has no those left behind.the reader is viewing conflict through the eyes of someone left behind, someone trying to understand the motivattions of their farther , to understand what made him go to war and what made him come back from it.

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what’s kamikaze about?

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the tells the story of a japenesse kamikaze pilot who failed to carry out his suicide mission and instead returned home in dihounor and shame.

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