Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland

'Powerful incantations' - Brainwashed
Free verse
Social pressure
'Like a huge flag' - Patriotism for country, reminder
'Embarked' - Verb, positive, willing
'One-way journey into history' - Metaphor, not meant to return, motivation, will be remembered
Italics - Quotations
Kamikaze pilots in WW2
'Must have' - Modal verb, doesn't really know, making excuses, unsure
'Shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun' - Sibilance, sound of sea, calm atmosphere
Enjambment - Out of control
7 regular stanzas - Strict routine
'Only we children still chattered and laughed' - Innocent, not brainwashed, don't understand
'Brothers [...] built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles [...] breakers bringing their father's boat' - Plosive alliteration, power of past, family
'Treated him as though he no longer existed' - Shouldn't have returned, shame on family, judged
'Yes, grandfather's boat' - Remembered, told children about him, still loves him, wants them to know
'Mother never spoke again' 'Nor did she meet his eyes - Shame, ashamed of him
'Till gradually we too learnt to keep silent' - Understand, still love him
'No longer the father we loved' - Taught
'He must have wondered which had been the better way to die' - Dead to family, social death, no love, in plane or at home

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