Kamikaze ✈️

• "Her father embarked at sunrise" - institutions


  Symbolism- Japan is known as the "land of the rising sun", immediate setting of the poem + patriotism

  Sun = hope, juxtaposition as he's going to end his life.
• "a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous."- nature


  Dark imagery - hints to a predatory side of nature

  Personification + shows nature to be powerful and beautiful

  Turning point of poem?? This makes the pilot turn around and go home??
• "Green-blue translucent sea"- nature


  Natural imagery- highlights the beauty of the world + what the pilot could lose.

  Helps reader empathise with the pilot's decision to turn back.
• "Strung out like bunting" - nature


  Simile- positive image + connotations of celebration

  Irony - considering what the pilot is about to do

  Reminds reader what the pilot is going to leave behind
• Can be compared to: (power of memory)

  Poppies + The Emigree
• Can be compared to: (power of nature)

  Exposure + Storm on the island + Ozymandias
• Can be compared to: (Conflicting emotions)

  Poppies + War photographer
• Can be compared to: (power of institutions)

  London + The Emigree
• "head full of powerful incantations"


  Listing- suggests it's a ritual + gives a sense of dignity + respect for the tradition

  "incantations" - brainwashed by the promise of honour?
• Tight structure of poem could reflect the tight grip of Japanese patriotism and culture
• "he must have wondered which has been a better way to die" - institutions 


  Pilot ponders whether a literal death would have been better than the emotional death he faces now he's returned

  Treated like a ghost by his family