Poems Flashcards
(7 cards)
How does the quote “ I spend a lot of the day to other people’s words” show the context on kamikaze.
The poetry immerses herself in other’s perspectives.Japan’s military attitudes were founded on codes of honour and self-sacrifice.Typically,Kamikaze pilots were volunteers which conveys how firmly people believed in these values enough to sacrifice their own lives.
What does the title “kamikazes and her father” show.
The noun “father” sets the tone for the poem with a sense of intimacy.Garland’s ability to see the person beneath the facade of a soldier suggests that she is questioning the ethics of patriotism (loving your country) and how it disregards identity.Furthermore the military expectations corrupt familial life and strip a person of agency and how there’s a disparity between the pilots assigned role of “kamikaze” and his personal role “her father”
“What does the quote full of powerful incarnations”
The imagery on “incarnations” suggests that the pilot was under a brainwashing propaganda spell.It portrays propaganda as hypnotic and bewitching.This is contexually important as Japanese soldiers were taught that self-sacrifice was the only means by which they could win war.The adjective powerful is bitterly ironic as the pilot is powerless to the propaganda enforced upon him and his dehumanisation and marginalisation when he goes back home.
Whats the form in Kamikaze
Its divided into sestets (lines of 6) which can be geouped into two.
First 5 describe the story of her father’s mission,yet the final two stanzas explore his return,this compresses the years after his return to be far shorter than his flight that would’ve happened within minutes or hours.
The gravitas (seriousness) of his decision within that one moment cur his life short.
Whats the metre in kamikaze
Initially the poem is written free verse to allow it to unfold quickly.mimicking the flight of the plane.The end resorts to iambs which reinstates a steady melancholic tone which mirrors a elegy (speech about someone who doed
What are the key themes for kamikaze
Identity (exposure)
Human control/power (exposure)
War (bayonet charge)
Memories (poppies)
