Kamikaze Flashcards
Starting line to show how she feels distant from her father
‘Her father embarked at sunrise’
Quote to show impacts of japanese patriotism - they know they will die but will gain honour
‘Shaven head of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey to history’
Volta showing her trying to lessen the dishonour in her childrens mind
‘But half way there, she thought, recounting it later to her children’
Simile to show celebration of nature - imagery
‘Little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea’
Simile to emphasise patriotism created by nature and also a reference to the infinity symbol to show nature is eternal
‘Like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight’
Sibilance to show tranquility - moment he feels calmness and clarity
‘The dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun’
Light imagery
Most important use of enjambment between stanzas - shows he doesn’t want to die
‘Swivelled towards the sun
and remembered how he and his brothers waited on the shore’
Semantic field of nature to show it as dangerous
‘Mackeral, black crabs, feathery prawns, the loose silver of whitebait, and once tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous’
Quote to show impact of solider coming home from war - subject to isolation
‘And though he came back, my mother never spoke again in his presence, nor meet him in the eyes and the neighbours too’
enj between last stanza to show people are culturally and socially conditioned - children didn’t know any better
‘Only we children still chattered and laughed…till gradually we learned to be silent and to live as though he has never returned’
‘Till’ colloquial language
Sad tone created at the end to show the conflict soliders faces between love and social duty
‘He must have wondered which had been the better way to die’
