kamikaze

• “one way journey into history”

  • metaphor/ euphemism
• “must have wondered which had been the better way to die”

  • paradox
  • regret
  • no way out
  • creates sympathy
• the poem contrasts the narrator and daughter’s voices in order to build a more personal and human tone to the poem as well as the pilots story
• the use of the rural fishing imagery contests the war based contexts and links the pilot to the fish inevitably caught and subject to fate