Story

• Kamikaze pilot's mission


  1. Setting off

  2. Flying towards enemy ships

  3. Suicide mission
• The pilot turned around and didn't complete his mission
• The pilot's daughter imagines he turned around because he saw the beauty of nature and remembered his innocent childhood
• The pilot was shunned when he got home, even his family acted as if he wasn't there
• The reaction of the pilot's wife is one of deep shame she never speaks to him again
• The pilot's daughter's words in the final stanzas are tinged with a sense of regret and loss
• The repetition in lines 9 and 41 of "he must have" also hints at her empathy with the pilot