Poetry-Kamikaze(garland)

Question 1

Describe the context of Kamikaze

Answer 1

• Garland was inspired to why people wanted to die for their country
• WW2-Kamikaze pilots did suicide missions into US vessels(mainly aircraft carriers)

Question 2

What are the overarching concepts?

Answer 2

• semantic field of honour
• semantic field of nature/peace
• regret/sadness

Question 3

Describe the strucutre Garland uses?

Answer 3

• mostly third person
• free verse(rhyme)
• lot of irony
• lot of enjarmbent

Question 4

Semantic field of honour plan:

Answer 4

“Samuri sword”-alliteration, sibilance

“Shaved head”-emotive language

“Journey into history”-painful irony

Question 5

Semantic field of nature/peace?

Answer 5

“Green-blue translucent sea”-imagrey-connotations of peace

“Shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun”-sibilance-uses a sense of grace and peacefullness

“Cairns of pearl-grey pebbles”-cairns-graves(death), “pearl has connotations to peace and tranquility

Question 6

Sadness/ regret plan?

Answer 6

“Which had been the better way to die”-pathos-sympathy

“This was no longer the father we loved”-pathos-sympathy(“this”-inhumane

“They treated him as though he never existed”-pathos-sympathy