Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland

• Kamikaze means "divine wind" or "wind from the gods."
• 'her father embarked at sunrise'
• 'Enough fuel for a one way journey into history'
• 'little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea'
• only we children still chattered and laughed/till gradually we too learned to be silent'
• 'he must have wondered which had been the better way to die'
• The poem is about a failed Kamikaze pilot and his family's reaction to him. The pilot sets off on his mission but changes his mind and returns home, thus failing to complete this mission. On his return, his family refuses to talk to him and he is shunned by society. The narrator of the poem is his daughter