power and conflict

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kamikaze uses free verse within its rigid 6 lined stanzas to show the freedom the pilot wanted within the robust society forced upon him
kamikaze has seven, six lined stanzas
kamikaze is a poem about a mother talking to her children about her father who was a kamikaze soldier
the focus however in kamikaze seems to shift to nature
Kamikaze pilots deliberately crashed specially made planes directly into enemy warships, which resulted in suicide
Many kamikaze pilots were actually conscripted into service and did not have a choice in their assignment.
the Japanese thought that dying in service of your country was the most honourable death you could have and that it was better to die than to live in shame
the Japanese believed that running away from death was the most dishonourable thing you could do
(kamikaze) "green blue translucent sea"
(kamikaze)"dark shoals of fishes flushing silver as their bellies swivel towards the sun"
(kamikaze) when fishes die they swivel on their bellies
(kamikaze) "a tuna, the dark prince, muscular ,dangerous."
(kamikaze) "her father embarked at sunrise"
(kamikaze) "built cairns of pearl grey pebbles"
(kamikaze) "arcing in swatches like a huge flag"
(kamikaze) " and though he came back my mother never spoke to him again"
(kamikaze) "he must have wondered which been the better way to die"
(kamikaze) "treated him as if he no longer existed."
(kamikaze) about the kids " gradually.. too learned to be silent"
(kamikaze) the swivelling of the fishes can mimic the waving of a flag, a gesture often used when signalling surrender
(kamikaze) cairns are a reference to death as they are the pebbles used to mark a tombstone
(kamikaze) the swivelling of the fishes which connote death can foreshadow the fathers social death as he had failed to meet the cultural expectations placed upon him
(kamikaze) the reference to sunrise could be to nature but also the Japanese flag
checking out me history uses colloquial phonetic spelling to refer back to his Caribbean roots the blatant dismissal of the standard way to spell shows the poets rejection of the Eurocentric system which controlled him
in checking out me history punctation can be seen as a device that enforces although covertly a set of rules and regulations, the poet also seems to dismiss this with the lack of punctiation
checking out me history is oral poetry
(checking out me history) "I carving out me own identity"
in checking out me history the poet lived in Guyana which was a British colony in south America until 1966
in checking out me history each line ends with a rhyme to build up to the stanzas line
checking out me history is a poem in response of the claim that west Indian history only started in 1492- when the Europeans invaded