kamikaze

• Garland employs the dramatic monologue form, adopting the voice of a daughter of a kamikaze pilot to lambast Japanese shame culture in the Boshido Code and towards men whose masculinity is seized when they do not conform to societal or military expectations.
• "a shaven head full of powerful incantations"


  suggests that the pilot has been under a metaphorical spell, which hints at the influence of patriotic propaganda that kamikazes were indoctrinated into during WW2.
• "one way journey into history"


  metaphor - indicates the gravity of his patriotic sacrifice and the futility of war
• "shaven head" "flag" "samurai sword"


  semantic field of patriotism connotes how his identity is oppressed and defined by his nation and status as a soldier
• "we too learned to be silent"


  change in speaker and shift in time has a jarring effect on the reader and perhaps expresses the turbulent, but repressed feelings of his daughter
• "he must have wondered/ which had been the better way to die"


  the pilot suffers a metaphorical death on his return, becoming a pariah -enjambment connotes the continuous shame prevalent in WW2 Japan as the impact of conflict becomes hereditary.