This document was used in my revision and helped me to achieve a Grade 9 in my English Literature GCSE (159/160) - key words and alternative interpretations of quotes are provided.
(Beatrice Garland) ·
the poem contains 4 generations
·
'Kamikaze' was the word used to describe
Her father embarked at sunrise
! with a flask of water, a samurai sword
Japanese fighter pilots who were sent on
suicide missions in wWll
3
in the cockpit, a shaven head ↳ seen as a sacrifice that brought great
&
full of powerful incantations honour in Japan
5
and enough fuel for a one-way ·
the conflict is both national and
6 journey into history personal
↳ the national conflict (wars causes
7
but half way there, she thought, inner personal conflict
,
z recounting it later to her children, ↳ conflict between the cultural
9
he must have looked far down expectation and the inner conscience
10
at the little fishing boats
11
strung out like bunting structure :
12 on a green-blue translucent sea 1 .
right structure
, each with
↳ 7 stanzas 6 lines
13 and beneath them, arcing in swathes tight control of the
↳ reflects the military
14
like a huge flag waved first one way and the expectations in the culture
15
then the other in a figure of eight, . Free-verse & Enjampment
2
16
the dark shoals of fishes
- - - -
Contrasts
↳ the right control seen in the
17
flashing silver as their bellies
- - - - Length of the stanzas
18
-
swivelled towards the sun
- -
↳ this freedom of expression reflects
the freedom the pilot wants to have
19 and remembered how he ↳ further
highlights the conflict
20
and his brothers waiting on the shore between his personal thoughts and
2
built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles his
national sense of duty
22
to see whose withstood longest
23
the turbulent inrush of breakers Language :
24
bringing their father’s boat safe I. use of positive and beautiful imagery
Climes 12 , 16-18)
25 – yes, grandfather’s boat – safe ↳ natural
imagery
26
to the shore, salt-sodden, awash . Sibilance (lines 16-18)
2
27
with cloud-marked mackerel, ↳ creates a sense of smooth movement
28
black crabs, feathery prawns, about the fish, reflecting the natural
29
the loose silver of whitebait and once wonder of nature
30
a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous. ↳ through looking at and reflecting
On the beauty of nature ,
the
3 And though he came back Pilot did not want to deprive hundreds
32
my mother never spoke again of other people (who would have been
33
in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes killed) or himself of experiencing
39 and the neighbours too, they treated him nature's true beauty
. power of nature (line 30)
3
35 as though he no longer existed,
↳ the most powerful character in
36 only we children still chattered and laughed
poem is a tuna fish
the
↳ Metaphor ('dark prince
37 till gradually we too learned
↳ adjectives ('muscular' 'dangerous
38
to be silent, to live as though ,
intense
39
he had never returned, that this ↳ creates a threatening
, ,
40 was no longer the father we loved. powerful image
And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered > the poems first full stop comes
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i which had been the better way to die. after this line signalling its ,
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