Kamikaze
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 23-05-18 15:00
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- Kamikaze
- Form
- Regular, unrhymed
- Third person
- Elegant and graceful tone, emphasis on abundance and vibrance of life
- Structure
- Stanzas 1-5: account of pilot's flight as daughter imagines it
- Stanzas 6-7: focus on consequences of these actions
- Methods
- Irony
- Direct speech
- Voice of poem mimics Japanese culture
- Quotes
- "Her father embarked at sunrise"
- "full of powerful incantations"
- "a one-way/journey into history"
- "he must have looked down/at the little fishing boats/strung out like bunting/on a green-blue translucent sea"
- "dark shoals of fishes/flashing silver as their bellies/swivelled towards the sun"
- "they treated him/as if he no longer existed"
- "we too learned/to be slient...that this/was no longer the father we loved"
- "And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered/which had been the better way to die."
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