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Gayain Thomas
Compare and contrast how the writers of Kamikaze and The Émigrée deal with memories and
the past
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Kamikaze is a fictional account of a Japanese suicide pilot returning home after failing his mission,
and tells the shame and rejection he faced from his own community after abandoning the war
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Both poems rely heavily on the idea that memories can often significantly influence our actions, and
are so powerful that they can shape individuals
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Her memories are as clear to her now as they were when she was a child,
appearing to her even though she is so far away and even taking her ‘dancing’
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This could be that the city does not want her turn against
it, as she realises that it is no longer the same place she used to know; she is the one of the only
people left to see it in a positive light, and so it ‘hides behind’ her in order to be protected by her
love rather than have her be influenced by people around her
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This personification shows how
powerful memories can be, as it still has a tangible effect on her in adulthood and is trapped with
the memories, as if she cannot escape them
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The Japanese propaganda and knowledge that he would not be welcomed back
home is replaced with warm memories, including ‘his brothers waiting on the shore’, symbolising
how his family would be waiting for him at home, only for him to never return
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Both poems are about outcasts; an exile, and a shunned father
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When he returned home, he was spurned and turned away by
everyone
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However, the last few lines of the poem suggest that
his daughter now feels regret at the way she had treated him, and perhaps wishes that she had
continued to have a close relationship with him, despite how she was supposed to feel
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In Emigree, she became an outsider as a child, when she left for a different life
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She has no way to return to her old life, and perhaps still
feels like an outcast where she lives, as she is not like everyone else
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Gayain Thomas
The Emigree is written in first person narrative, perhaps to promote feelings of empathy or sadness
from readers
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Kamikaze is written primarily in third person narrative, and often gives the impression
that the story is being told orally (from the pilots’ daughter to her own children, many years later)
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However, the second sentence of the
poem, in stanza six, switches to first person narrative, giving a more raw and emotional account than
before, as if the speaker was recalling harsh memories
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Both poems are written in blank verse and have no strong rhythmic pattern, although clearly for
different effects
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The Emigree is written because her memories are
incoherent and meaningless to anyone but her, and it is as if she is talking to herself
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The Emigree is composed of only three stanzas
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It suggests that the speaker cannot be
parted from the memories and is unwilling to let the poem end, as if her positive ideals of the place
will end with it
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The steady stanza
structure ensures that readers feel the emotion and misfortune of the story, all whilst being able to
decide their own opinions about the themes of the poem
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