Kamikaze🛫

• daughter telling her kids about her komikazie piolet father. (Not until the first 8 verses)
• Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a sumari sword: '
• repetition of 's Sibilance

  creates sense of peace and the peacefulnes reflects the peace hes supposed to find in Death the ‘s’ sound is symbol for sunrise which symbolises the country of Japan and divinity [meeting god)
• Sunrise


  Symbolised country of Japan and divinity (m'eeling God)
• Water


  Symbol of purity so is purifying himself spirituality and in religious perspective it signify's baptism dying in order to enter into a new life as hero
• "embarKed"


  Literally means 2 get on a boat
• "like a huge flag waved first one way then the Other in a figure of eight"


  ∞
• Looking down on fish


  Fish symbolises life he doesn't want 2 give up by commiting suicide
• Flag


  Represents patriarchy. Fish represent the patriotic sacrafice he makes for his country
• "eternity”

  Highlights the eternal absense of life 4ever. Also 4 living 4 ever as a hero Foreshadows his journe
• Moment he changes his mind
• "And sometimes. She said, he must have wondered which had been the best way to die"

  Implies she's never talked 2 her father after he can back which had ....die "ne's died emotionally wi the family. Suggest he's never been accepted back
• Poem & hope


  Symbolisess
• free verse


  Feels like speech with moral @end.
• poem doesn't have form as the family didn't give father his true form
• Stanza's symbolise how She's trying 2 give new form to her father by calling him "grandfather"
• Created the land of Japan

  Amaterasu is said to have created the land of Japan and is considered the ancestor of the Japanese imperial family.
• Amaterasu


  A major deity in Japanese mythology, often considered the goddess of the sun and the universe, and a central figure in the Shinto religion.
• Born from Izanagi's eye


  Amaterasu was born from the left eye of Izanagi, the god of creation, after he washed himself in the sea to cleanse himself from the impurities of the underworld.
• Hiding in a cave


  The most famous myth about Amaterasu involves her hiding in a cave after a dispute with her brother, causing darkness to fall over the world.
• Radiant features


  Amaterasu is often depicted as a beautiful woman with radiant features, symbolizing the life-giving power of the sun.
• The father lives a living death

  His family refuse to talk to him
• The daughter changes it for her kids

  Allows them to have a grandfather
• The daughter brings the grandfather

  Back to the family
• yes grandfathers boat-Safe: 'Grandfather's boat is safe'
• Kamikaze

  -oppression

  -war

  -human nature

  -identity
• Who wrote Kamikaze?


  Beatrice Garland
• "Foreshadows his journey"


  Concept of eternity hinting at or predicting something that will happen later in the story; connected to the larger plot of the story
• "Also 4 living 4 ever as a hero"


  Being a hero as an eternal state; impact or legacy of being a hero lasts forever
• Regular syllable patterns


  Gives the poem an nostalgic tone mirroring rhythm of waves representing helplessness enforcing no matter what he does he will die one way or another
• The poem contrasts the narrator and daughters voice (with itallics) in order to build a more personal and human tone to the poem as well as the piolets' story.