Kamikaze

• Written in free verse
• Brought back into family by daughter, as she refers to him as "Grandfather."
• Cyclical as grandchildren originally accept him, but later will be oppressed by cultural and social norms and blank him out.
• "we too learned to be silent"
• "shoals of fish flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun"
• "a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous."
• "strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea"
• Six line stanzas
• Beatrice Garland now works in the NHS. Reflecting national expectations.
• Free verse and enjambment contrasts tight control of length of stanzas, reflecting freedom pilot wants to have, however military and national expectation forbids him.
• Form of oral poetry
• Rhyme forces Eurocentric and Caribbean history together, structurally climaxing to end each stanza on important Caribbean figures.