In Depth Kamikazi

Question 1

Content and meaning

Answer 1

WW2 kamikaze pilots fly manned missiles into targets e.g. Ships

Poem explores kamikaze pilots journey toward battle, decision to return, and how shunned at home

Looks down at see + beauty of nature/memories of childhood make him turn back

Question 2

Language

Answer 2

Japanese word kamikaze means Devine wind or heavenly wind- origin in heaven sent storm that scattered invading fleet

Dark shoals of fish flashing silver: image links to samurai sword- conveys conflict between love for nature and life and duty.

They treated him as though he no longer existed: cruel irony as chose to live but now as though dead

Was no longer the father we loved: pilots forever affected by decision

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

Narrative and speaker= 3rd person: represents distance of her and father cus rejection by society

First 5 stanzas ordered. Only full stop is end of stanza 5: decision to turn back

Final two stanza in italics and longer line to represent fallout of decision- his life shifted and no longer the same

Direct speech (my mother never spoke again) gives personal tone- sympathy