Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland
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- Created on: 19-02-19 15:34
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- Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland
- Context
- born in 1938
- she started writing poetry in 1989
- she works as a NHS clinician and teacher
- she has written two volumes of poetry
- she continues to work on poetry
- Form and Structure
- mostly written in third person
- last stanzas are direct
- first 5 stanzas form one sentence
- final=fallout
- enjambment and caesura
- no clear rhyme
- Language
- similes and metaphors
- detailed description
- "little fishing boats strung out like bunting"
- "which had been the better way to die"
- "cloud-markered mackerel"
- "they treated him as though he no longer existed"
- Emotions
- rejection
- family
- acceptance
- shame
- pride for ones country
- regret of ones action
- Past and Present
- at the beginning the views are very positive
- later on the happy vocabulary is darker
- memories from the second world war
- suicide pilot memories
- Conflicts
- power of nature
- power of humans
- family and honour
- war
- legacy
- Context
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