5 Key Quotes Kamikaze for Top Grades

Hello and welcome to another video bringing you

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seven, eight and nine for your poetry comparisons today, as you know we are focusing on camicazi and as usual there will only be five

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here, they are highlighted in yellow so that you can try them. of what's to come and that's it, that's all you need to get qualified as usual. I'll show you how to organize your comparison using phosphating, language features, structure and ending directly to see if we can make this video super. In short, who is talking to who in this poem is very confusing, so this is my best way to explain it.

It's about a daughter who talks about her father, who is the

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pilot, and she tells it to her own children, but she doesn't start telling her own children. until after this line so this is information about the poet his backstory the poem begins his father embarked at dawn with a flask of water a samurai sword now, the way I've read it is to emphasize the sibilants he gives it this repeated S sound a sign of peace and that peaceful sound reflects the peace that is supposed to be found in death, which is also symbolized by the sunrise sun, which symbolizes so much the country of Japan, that is why the sun is the symbol on its flag and also symbolizes divinity, it is like meeting God, water.

It is always a symbol of purity and that is why it is being spiritually purified in this way and also for the Christian audience, for us it also means baptism, it is dying to enter a new life as a hero, so we have this wonderful word embarked, which literally It means moving forward. a boat a boat is a boat and that is being used deliberately here because it will be the site of the grandfather's boat, so the father's father's boat reminds him what it is to be a fisherman and persuades him not to do it. kill other sailors at sea so ultimately the father will realize that the enemy is like him and also his father's ship will remind him of the family he is losing and therefore he chooses not to die so This is this first stanza. facts of her journey or the beginning of her journey and now this line break here shows us the thoughts of the daughter as she reimagines what was going through her father's head, so even though her father when she was a child died for her, she still formed this incredible intellectual bond with him where she tries to imagine his thoughts and experiences, so she imagines him looking down at the schools of fish.

The fish themselves are obviously symbols of life and this is the life she does not want to give up by committing suicide now. The simile she uses is revealing that the fish are like a huge flag waved first in one direction and then the other in the shape of a figure 8, so the flag, of course, represents patriotism, so on the one hand these Fish represent life but on the other hand they represent sacrifice. What she's supposed to do patriotically for her country's flag, many readers have gotten this idea from the figure 8 on her side. I'll just trace it with my mouse here and this is the infinity symbol, so right now he's imagining his death and presumably living forever Immortal II as a hero but at the same time infinity is eternal death and that's why he's also imagining the absence of life forever we can also say that the figure of eight returns on itself so what we have here is a physical representation of how it is going to fly to commit suicide, changes its mind and then returns and that is also reflected in the language, He flies first in one direction and then in the other when returning, so this is the moment when he begins to change his mind according to His daughter.

This stanza describes everything that would be on the father's ship and then the daughter thinks that yes, that was my grandfather's boat, but he tells his children that this is like an answer that the children have interrupted when talking about the boat. and she says yes, that is the grandfather's ship, who would be her children's grandfather, who would be their father, so that line suggests that the daughter has established a relationship with her father, who becomes the children's grandfather. who they still talk to, so he obviously inherited the ship and his relationship with the family has completely changed now that I've studied this poem many times and no one ever points it out.

The conventional interpretation of this poem is that the father is experiencing a kind of living death because his family refused to talk to him as we would. look however it seems that this daughter has changed that for her own children her father has allowed them to have a grandfather so let's focus on what he sees on the boat according to his daughter the white bait our type of fish and they are silver in color, but The choice of language describing them as loose silver is an allusion to a biblical description, so in the West silver has always represented the idea of ​​betrayal because Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, betrayed Jesus to the Romans in exchange of thirty pieces of silver. silver and that is referred to, if you will, in the idea of ​​loose morality, as well as in loose coins, so it invites us to imagine these lis coins at the same time that it describes the color and movement of the fish that are released on the deck of the ship. the white bait symbolizes his betrayal of his country just as Judas betrayed Jesus now the Dark Prince, muscular and dangerous, that is, the tuna is another symbol and it is more difficult to determine what it means, it could mean the Japanese royal family that he is effectively condemning .

These men go to death to sacrifice themselves for their country and their Emperor, but it could also symbolize the subversive act that his father performs by not committing suicide and that is why his act is his protest against meaninglessly throwing his life away. It seems like a dark and princely act, it is a positive way of looking at what he has done, he is punished by society because what he has done is dangerous, but it is not a weak decision, it is a strong decision, now that interpretation only works if we think . To the narrator, the daughter has now welcomed her father back into the family to be a grandfather to her own children.

If you don't take that point of view, then this has to represent the Japanese royal family, which is dangerous to the samurai because they caused their deaths. Now I'm in favor of the idea that she has brought her father back into the family and it's because of these two

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that only us kids still chat and laugh, that means they love their dad, they were grateful to have him back and that's the natural human reaction, honey, then insert a line break for a new stanza until we have this Volta in this turn until gradually we both learned to be silent.

The word gradually I think shows us how unnatural it was for children to disown their father. Don't do it suddenly, so this implies that Japanese culture at that time is doing something painful and wrong and it takes a long time for children to adapt to it and the fact that they learned it also suggests that it was totally unnatural. Let's imagine that as this child, the daughter grows up, he now reflects on his childhood and thinks that that decision was wrong and sometimes he said that he met her, he must have wondered what had been the best way to die, so the phrase must have been asked means. the daughter never spoke to her father about her decision even though she lived many years later because the memory is too painful for him.

The last line, which had been the best way to die, suggests that she died emotionally within the family, which is problematic, she suggests. which has never been accepted, his family has permanently excluded him, but as we have seen when she tells her children that yes, that was the grandfather's ship that cannot work because her children's grandfather is their father, therefore , the last line does not mean that he faces a definitive death excluded by his family that death only lasted while his own wife was alive maybe the other children have not accepted it yet but this daughter has because she is telling the story to her own children now think that Beatriz Garland makes this timeline about who she is Talking to who across generations it's really complicated trying to show how complex culture can be and how damaging it can be to the family across generations, but it's also a message of hope, do you know how countries and people recover from war?

Well, it's the next generation, those who weren't alive during the war, those who rebuild that country and those who changed the culture and have different points of view and that's a pretty deep question if you take the case of Japan, it was the only country bombed with atomic bombs and In reality, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed twice in 1945 and yet by the 1970s Japan had become an economic superpower and just as Japan did not die after this astonishing level of destruction, the children's father and grandfather didn't die either, so my reading when we get to the end is that this is actually a poem about hope about how cultures can change and don't have to be locked into the old way of to do the things.

We could even argue that losing the war has allowed this culture to change and become something much better than it was, so this would be my only positive poem about the war in the anthology, you know, because the culture has become much more celebratory of life rather than being willing to sacrifice it through the tradition of samurai law. phosphate and look how we've covered it well, obviously we have the poet's point of view at the beginning, which I've covered and at the end, which I've covered everything I've mentioned about chronology about who's talking about who. that's structure, every time I look at those two line breaks between stanzas, that's you analyzing the structure and the features of the language that we've done all the way through using the words symbol and simile that we had here and then for the seventh grade that we need.

To consider the analysis of form, it's quite difficult to write about that in this poem, we'll see that each stanza has six lines, but I can't think of a real reason for this, it doesn't relate to the theme of the poem anyway. written in completely unrhymed free verse and I guess the easiest thing we can say about it is that it feels like natural speech, it's like this turns into a monologue, he must have looked very down while she talks to her children , maybe. We can say that this makes it feel more like a narrative, a story that she tells with a moral at the end, which is that we should not kill our own family members, but rather we should do the opposite and give them life and protection.

I guess we could argue that the poem doesn't really have a form that reflects the way the family didn't give the father the true form of him as a father, they denied him that identity and then we could say that the poem is trying to develop. a performance with these regular six-line stanzas that could reflect how she is trying to give a new identity and a new form to her father by establishing him as the grandfather of her own children. So sometimes I struggle with this because 20th century poets and 21st century poets often deliberately ignore form because they are trying to do something new and so what I have given you is strictly for the exam, so remember that Your tactic on the exam is to write about form first because that anchors the examiner's expectation that you "If you are a 7th grade student or above because that is where form comes into the mathematical scheme and with your second poem you will also follow this same pattern.

It's a really easy way to talk about the author's purpose because it's always revealed at the beginning and then it always changes at the end, as we saw particularly in this poem where we give the daughter a new perspective on her father, where. she reintroduces him to her own children and he becomes a grandfather. It is very likely that you have not followed this native about who he is talking to who in the same way in their own lessons the teachers find it very difficult to determine who the one is. who is talking to whom. Oh, and I've had the same difficulty, but I've probably spent an hour thinking and searching for that's the best thing I can do, I hope it makes sense to you.

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