Kamikaze

Cards (9)

  • The loose silver of whitebait and once tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.
  • Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword
  • He must have wondered which had been the better way to die
  • Like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight
  • Only we children still chattered and laughed until we too learned to be silent
  • Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword
    Sibilance- peace in death, also shows something sinister about method of death
    Water- purity, spiritual
    Embarked- get on boat- grandfather's boat persuading piolet to live
  • Like a huge flag waved first one way and then the other in a figure of eight
    Simile- flag represents patriotism
    Figure of eight- infinity, cyclical structure of patriotism + imagining absence of life forever
  • The loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
    'Loose silver'- biblical allusion- Judas betrays Jesus in return for silver, betrayal of country
    Act of not killing himself is a dangerous act
  • Only we children still chattered and laughed until we too learned to be silent
    Gradually- unnatural, children affected by patriotism