The poem explores the impact of conflict on families through two perspectives. It describes how a father embarked on a kamikaze mission during war, and the daughter later recounts his decision to her children. It also depicts a woman seeing her husband off to war, resisting emotional displays and finding her words fading as he leaves. Both experiences convey how conflict strains familial bonds and relationships, leaving lingering unspoken feelings and changed dynamics within families.
The poem explores the impact of conflict on families through two perspectives. It describes how a father embarked on a kamikaze mission during war, and the daughter later recounts his decision to her children. It also depicts a woman seeing her husband off to war, resisting emotional displays and finding her words fading as he leaves. Both experiences convey how conflict strains familial bonds and relationships, leaving lingering unspoken feelings and changed dynamics within families.
The poem explores the impact of conflict on families through two perspectives. It describes how a father embarked on a kamikaze mission during war, and the daughter later recounts his decision to her children. It also depicts a woman seeing her husband off to war, resisting emotional displays and finding her words fading as he leaves. Both experiences convey how conflict strains familial bonds and relationships, leaving lingering unspoken feelings and changed dynamics within families.
Compare the ways poets present the impact of conflict 8th January 2019 Her father embarked at sunrise
on families in ‘Kamikaze’ and in ‘Poppies’. with a flask of water, a samurai sword
in the cockpit, a shaven head full of powerful incantations What is the impact of conflict What is the impact of conflict and enough fuel for a one-way Three days before Armistice Sunday on families in ‘Poppies’? on families in ‘Kamikaze’? journey into history and poppies had already been placed but half way there, she thought, on individual war graves. Before you left, recounting it later to her children, I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade strung out like bunting of yellow bias binding around your blazer. on a green-blue translucent sea How is this shown? How is this shown? and beneath them, arcing in swathes Select two key quotations: Select two key quotations: Sellotape bandaged around my hand, like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight, I rounded up as many white cat hairs the dark shoals of fishes as I could, smoothed down your shirt's flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun upturned collar, steeled the softening of my face. I wanted to graze my nose and remembered how he and his brothers waiting on the shore across the tip of your nose, play at built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles being Eskimos like we did when What language methods does What language methods does to see whose withstood longest the turbulent inrush of breakers you were little. I resisted the impulse the poet use to convey the the poet use to convey the bringing their father’s boat safe to run my fingers through the gelled impact of conflict? impact of conflict? blackthorns of your hair. All my words – yes, grandfather’s boat – safe flattened, rolled, turned into felt, to the shore, salt-sodden, awash with cloud-marked mackerel, black crabs, feathery prawns, slowly melting. I was brave, as I walked the loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous. with you, to the front door, threw it open, the world overflowing How is the conflict shown How is the conflict shown And though he came back my mother never spoke again like a treasure chest. A split second through the form/structure through the form/structure in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes and you were away, intoxicated. that is used? that is used? and the neighbours too, they treated him as though he no longer existed, After you'd gone I went into your bedroom, only we children still chattered and laughed released a song bird from its cage. till gradually we too learned Later a single dove flew from the pear tree, to be silent, to live as though and this is where it has led me, he had never returned, that this was no longer the father we loved. skirting the church yard walls, my stomach busy And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered making tucks, darts, pleats, hat-less, without which had been the better way to die. a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves.
President Uhuru Kenyatta's Speech During The Official Opening of The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) High-Level Segment at The United Nations Complex, Gigiri