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GCSE Poetry- Kamikaze - Coggle Diagram
GCSE Poetry- Kamikaze
Recap Points
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Inner conflict between the cultural expectation, the national expectation that he would die for his country
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Telling her children- don't forget him, could be a warning
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Context
Historically, the Japanese had been saved from invasion by two typhoons that destroyed enemy ships. They believed it to be a god-like intervention
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The tradition of death instead of defeat, capture, and shame was deeply entrenched in Japanese military culture
Divine: God-like, saintly, beautiful
Structure
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The first five stanzas form one sentence which covers an account of the pilot's flight as the pilot's daughter imagines it
Form
Reported speech of the pilot's daughter- absence of the pilot's voice shows he has been cut off from society
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Beatrice Garland (Poet)
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She re-counts a story told by someone else about a place and time beyond the poet's own direct experience
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Quick Summary
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A Kamikaze pilot who was supposed to sacrifice himself for his country (honour) but fails (brings shame). Family rejects