Quotes Flashcards
A shaven
head full of incantations
He is under the influence of patriotism and propaganda not him making decisions - his decisions would be to live
Figure of
eight
symbol of infinity. Implies the eternal existence of nature in comparison to humans life’s brief , transient war and honour forgotten only nature remains nature more powerful than mankind
Repetition of safe
Show its life he’s focussing on and life is valuable and shouldn’t be thrown away prematurely
a tuna, a dark prince
Muscular , dangerous
The kamikaze piolet the epitome of bravery is not even the most dangerous thing in the poem emphasises this point as just a fish from nature is more powerful than man
It’s a metaphor for a prince important and deserving of honour emphasised by the first full stop of poem and accumulative list
Which had been
the better way to die
Both options offered a kind of death one is to be dead but to be honoured but you don’t experience or other be ignored and blanked
Shows how war and propaganda brainwashed these people into turning on there own loved ones. Poem is third person suggest writer doesn’t agree with view
