Poetry

• "softly glows as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass"-War Photographer
• "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows" - War Photographer
• "the only light is red and softly glows" -War Photographer
• "running children in a nightmare heat" -War Photographer
• What can you analyse about War Photographer's structure?

  • Cyclical structure
  • The poem/ stanzas have a fixed structure-- shows he's unable to make changes and that the cycle of war continues
• "Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword in the cockpit" -Kamikaze
• "He must have looked far down" - Kamikaze
• "At the little fishing boats strung out like bunting" -Kamikaze
• "They treated him as though he no longer existed" -Kamikaze
• "On a green-blue translucent sea" -Kamikaze
• He's like a ghost because no one speaks or acknowledges him so he must wonder which decision would be worse (Kamikaze)
• What does the structure of the Kamikaze's stanzas show?

  Reflects the obedient and controlled Kamikaze pilots
• What 2 things do enjambment in this Kamikaze show?

  1. It broke his family apart and broke him off from society
  2. STRUCTURAL JUXTAPOSITION: The stanzas are strictly controlled but there's enjambment -- shows he has desires/ wanted freedom
• Why were Kamikaze pilots a thing?

  During WW2, Americans were trying to invade Japan
• Kamikaze pilots are still an emotive issue in Japan to this day (shows how the impact of conflict is generational and long lasting)
• "Before you left" - Poppies


  • The conjunction "before" shows that she is reminiscing over their last memories together
  • "You" - she's directly addressing her son even though he's not there - this shows that she is yearning to speak to him