Kamikaze Quotes Flashcards
Poet?
Beatrice garland
Which perspective is it (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)
3rd person- on lines 7+32 it’s the daughters 1st person perspective though
What does kamikaze mean
Devine wind
Structure first 5 stanzas
5 stanzas=1 sentence
This covers flight from daughters imagination
End of the sentence=plain landing
Structure last 2 stanzas
Deal with fall out of him choosing to land
Consequences of actions
Fill in the blank “Enough fuel…. …. ……….. …….. …… history”
“Enough fuel for a one-way journey into history”
Analysis-“enough fuel for a one-way”
‘One-way’-Not coming home-suicide mission-line break gives emphasis
Start of poem
Analysis-“…journey into history”
Metaphor-sacrifice for country-pride,hero
Commitment,honour,sacrifice for pilot-GLORY!
Fill in the blank “dark ……, …….., ………”
“Dark Prince, muscular, dangerous”
Analysis-“dark Prince, muscular, dangerous”
Adjectives-triples-emphasis everything changes-not a hero
Enjambment-first full stop after 5stanzas/30lines
Shows end of mission-shifts tone+focus
VOLTA
Alternate Analysis-“dark Prince, muscular, dangerous”
Could still be linking to the tuna, described previously showing power of nature
Fill in the blank- “which had been …. ……. …. … ….”
“Which had been the better way to die.”
Analysis-“which had been the better way to die”
.Short sentence-final-destructiveness of patriotism
.End of poem-end of life
-Symbolism-not physically dead
Either way he’d be dead to family
.Enjambment-shows final and proper end-poem and life
-Shows daughters regret now he’s gone?
.Evokes emotional response from reader-sympathy
