Poppies/Kamikaze Essay

Both ‘Poppies’ and ‘Kamikaze’ explore loss. In Poppies, Weir explores the loss that mothers feel when their children go off to war. She deliberately doesn’t mention one particular war, so that the experiences in the poem can apply to any war at any time. Weir makes the mother’s feelings of loss clear by writing ‘released a songbird from its cage’. Weir’s use of imagery helps the reader to imagine that the mother is having to open up a cage and release a vulnerable bird into the world. In this image, the bird symbolises her son and the cage symbolises the home they share together. It is clear that the mother is finding it very difficult letting her son go off to war, knowing that she may not see him again. In Kamikaze, the feelings of loss are different. When the father returns, he loses his family and they lose him, due to feeling that they must ignore him. This is linked to the honour of being sent on a Kamikaze mission and the shame that would have been felt if the pilot did not fulfil his duty to his country. Garland makes the children’s loss clear by writing ‘we too learned to be silent’. These words indicate that the children learn from their mother and neighbours that they must ignore their father, which means they lose their father and he loses them. Garland’s use of the word ‘learn’ is important as it indicates that they have been taught to ignore their father over a period of time. Garland’s use of the word ‘silent’ feels very cold because it encourages the reader to imagine that the father is completely ignored. It is clear in both poems that family members have suffered loss as a result of war.

Both poems explore sadness. Near the end of ‘Poppies’, Weir makes clear the mother misses her son by writing ‘hoping to hear your playground voice’. These words indicate that the mother has fond memories of her son as a child. Weir’s use of sound imagery in these words helps the reader to imagine the happy sounds of her son playing in the school playground. The imagery tells the reader how vivid the mother’s memories are of her son as a young child, and how difficult it must be for the mother knowing that she will never see her son again. Weir’s use of the word ‘hoping’ indicates that the mother is finding it difficult to let go of her son, and is hoping that one day she may hear his voice again. Similarly, Kamikaze ends with feelings of sadness. In the final line of the poem, Garland presents the speaker of the poem as regretful by writing ‘he must have wondered which had been the better way to die’. In other words Garland is suggesting that the father may have asked himself it would have been better to go through with the suicide mission because he was treated as if he was dead when he returned anyway. It is clear that the children will always look back on the way they treated their father feeling regret and sadness because they treated him as if he were dead.

Both poems explore struggle. In ‘Poppies’ Weir makes clear the mother struggles to say goodbye to her son on the day he leaves by writing ‘I was brave’. These words indicate that the mother is forced to appear brave when saying goodbye to her son, due to not wanting him to feel any guilt about leaving. Weir’s use of these words helps the reader to imagine all families who have been in this situation, having to wave goodbye to a family member going to war. We imagine how they would struggle knowing that this family member will be in great danger, and may never return alive. It is clear that war forces all people to be brave - not just the soldiers fighting. The struggle in Kamikaze is different. In Kamikaze, Garland explores the pilot’s struggle when he has to choose between his country and his family. Garland implies that, while the pilot is flying towards the enemy ship, he looks down at the water and sees fishing boats that remind him of his ‘father’s boat’. This brings back memories of days he spent fishing with his father and brothers. Garland implies that these memories encourage the pilot to turn his plane around because he realises that he does not want to lose his family. Garland is clear that she is not writing about a real Kamikaze pilot’s experience, but that she wanted to use her poem to imagine the struggle that young Kamikaze pilots would have gone through in this situation. It is clear in both poems that both the people fighting, and the families, struggle in war.

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Poppies & Kamikaze

Poppies is about a mother who is remembering her son after he leaves to go off to war. It discusses the effect on the war for the people who the soldiers leave behind.

At the beginning of the poem, the mother is placing a poppy on the blazer her son is wearing, a similar one placed on the “individual graves”. The use of this adjective shows uniqueness and suggests that she sees her son as being unique and special, much like most mothers.

Also, the way she is getting him ready to leave is similar to the how a mother would get her son ready for school. This suggests that she is remembering when her son was younger, maybe wishing her was a child again. This also gives the impression that she feels like her son may just be leaving home for the first time, rather than going off to war.

While Poppies is about what happens to those left behind during the war, Kamikaze is more about what happens during the war to those fighting. The poem tells the story of a kamikaze pilot who, while on his way to dying for his country, looks down and sees things that remind him of his childhood and the life he’d be leaving behind and decides to turn back. However, upon returning he is ignored and looked down my the family he nearly left behind.

In Poppies, the mother wants her son to come home more than anything. At the end of the poem, she mentions how the is “hoping” to hear her sons “playground voice” again. This shows that all she wants is to hear her son when he was a child, wanting to feel like he’s there just one more time.

However, in Kamikaze, when the pilot returns from war, instead of him being treated like a brave war hero, he is treated like he “no longer existed”. This suggests that due to him not dying for his country and leaving them behind, his family feel shame instead of pride. They act as though he died during the war, because he is now more of an embarrassment to the family.

The author makes us feel sorry for both the pilot, and also for the daughter as she didn’t want to feel as though her father should be ignored, the opinion was thrust upon her. The way he is treated is very different to the mother’s opinion and thoughts toward her son and him leaving for war.

In conclusion, Poppies focuses more on wishing for someone to come back, whereas Kamikaze is more focused on what happens to some of the soldiers who return, almost like a cold truth.

Examiner’s Comments: Although this essays shows a very personal and sensitive understanding of both of the poems, and would be a 5 or 6. There is clear understanding of the poets ideas, the comparison is well chosen, and there are a few well chosen quotes to explore how the poets express their ideas. As a result, the essay shows clear understanding of both the poems. This is to its credit. However, more direct comparisons between the two -such as how in one the mother wishes her son doesn’t/didn’t die, while in the other they wish he did – would raise its grade to a 6. Largely, in English, you are being asked to show understanding of a piece of work, and this essay does that in a very broad way. To improve it, the student should look more closely at specific quotes rather than just general ideas.

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Why I love…Comparing in the AQA Anthology: Poppies and War Photographer

In this series I have tried to put together some high level examples of comparisons for the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology. The next poems that I’ll be teaching are Poppies and War Photographer so I’ve tried to complete a high level example on these two poems. Hopefully, the comparisons make sense. Any feedback is much appreciated. I’ve linked here to the other comparison blogs and at some point there will be a full set across the Anthology. A copy of the essay can be downloaded here: Poppies vs War Photographer

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Explore the presentation of powerful emotions related to conflict in Poppies and War Photographer.

Powerful emotions are shown in both poems: Poppies and War Photographer through the perspective of people outside of the conflict, but who experience a form of conflict themselves. In Poppies the persona appears to be a mother, who is experiencing feelings of loss as a result of her son growing up and going to war. War Photographer depicts the outsider’s perspective in a different way to Poppies: it is seen more vividly and visually through the eyes of someone experiencing the conflict, photographing the conflict but not being able to do anything to help those injured by the conflict. In this way the conflict and powerful emotions, while different are equally powerful. Memory, visual representation and the power of touch is presented in both poems to reinforce the way powerful emotions are created by the experiences of conflict.

Both poets use memory to reinforce the powerful emotions evident in the poems. Memory, in Poppies appears to be from a mother, who seems to remember her son leaving for school or leaving for the war. The mother “pinned one onto your lapel” with the past tense implying that this was something that happened and a memory that is sharply remembered, as a result of the imminence of “Armistice Sunday”. The significance of the proper nouns and use of “Armistice” is important as it has symbolic meaning as a time when we all get together to remember those who fell in war, a time for reminiscing and a time to reflect on the human sacrifices that were made. The ambiguity over whether the jacket was a school blazer, or an army jacket increases the poignancy. Irrespective of when the poppy was “pinned” onto the “lapel” the tactile action is maternal and loving and shows the bond between mother and child, that grows from when they are little and remains even when they are grown up. Memory is differently explored in War Photographer and the memory is from the perspective of a persona, who was in the conflict, but as a bystander and observer, rather than as an active participant. Their memory is sharply painful “the cries of this man’s wife” with the enjambment reinforcing the powerful jolt of remembrance, when the “half formed ghost” appears as it is revealed in his darkroom. The photographer appears to have compartmentalised what he saw and refers to the memories using emotive language “a hundred agonies in black and white” which almost dehumanises the powerful emotions linked to the conflict that was seen by the war photographer, as the vast array of “agonies” reflects the habitual suffering that humanity experiences during conflict. However, Duffy may have been influenced to write about the powerful emotions in the poem in a detached way to show the outside world the horror that her friends had to catalogue and photograph, while not being able to help or do anything, as that was not what they were there to do. This dehumanisation of the people depicted in the poem is further reinforced by the next step of removal from the horror when the fact is used that “the editor will pick out five or six”, which is completely different from the first-person perspective in Poppies. The mother in Poppies seems to live and breathe the pain and suffering, whereas the photographer is once removed from the suffering.

Furthermore, both poets use visual representations to emphasise the powerful emotions that are evident in the poems. In poppies the imagery of “poppies…placed on individual war graves.” Is an incredibly strong visual, as most people have experienced the sight of poppies on graves as a form of memorial, so this is familiar and significant. Unlike this public visual display, in War Photographer, he is “finally alone” creating imagery of a relief that the photographer is able to hide away in his darkroom surrounded by the ironic “spools of suffering” as the old-fashioned camera’s had “spools” of film that captured the images. The sibilance here perhaps reinforces the visual representation of the sheer amount of powerful emotions contained in the film that has yet to be developed. As well as the actual poppies creating vivid visual imagery and the as yet undeveloped film from War Photographer, in Poppies the setting is visually represented. Duffy has the persona “skirting the church yard walls,” with the verb “skirting” implying that she does not want to be there or does not want to be seen, as if she wants to fade into the background, but the visual imagery of a churchyard is very commonplace and familiar to British people. Whereas, in War Photographer the setting and visual representation of areas is listed with the proper nouns naming places that are far away and unfamiliar to the reader “Belfast. Beruit. Phnom Penh.”. All these places are known to be places that have suffered from conflict and the removal of the familiar by Duffy to the less familiar name only settings could show another removal from the powerful emotions that ordinary people feel when they see images in the newspapers. As Duffy reflects the “reader’s eyeballs prick with tears” which is a recognition of the powerful emotions reflected in the photographs taken of the conflict but the juxtaposition of the familiar comfort of everyday life shows that this is a fleeting moment of empathy for most people “between the bath and pre-lunch beers”. Both poems use visual representations as a way of familiarising and defamiliarising the conflict and the powerful emotions felt as a result of the conflict.

Finally, both poems use the power of touch through the tactile acts inherent in the poems. As a seamstress, Weir uses imagery of keeping the hands busy and using touch to make the persona seem closer to their lost loved one. The verbs “traced”, “leaned” and “pulled” in the final stanza show the powerful emotions of the persona missing her son and using touch as a way to keep her with her son. Although, it isn’t only touch, the senses are important too and she “hoping to hear your playground voice” implying she misses a time when her son was young, free and innocent and wants to remember this. Powerful emotions of loss are shown in the way she continually references caring touches “smoothed down your shirt’s” which are clearly memories of what she did when her son was with her. Duffy, meanwhile, uses the actions of the people suffering in the conflict to create the feeling of how futile the conflict was “running children in a nightmare heat.” These images are only possible due to the developing of these with hands that “tremble” even though they “did not tremble then” which implies that while undertaking the job of taking photographs of the conflict the photographer is fine, but not after the event, when he has time to reflect and think about it. Both Poppies and War Photographer show the power of touch in bringing powerful memories to the surface. In Poppies this is done through the memory of tactile acts of care between the mother and the son and in War Photographer through the developing of the film and the release of the memories as a result of the pictures that were taken.

Both poets reflect powerful emotions in different ways. The powerful emotions in Poppies appear to be reflected through the relationship of a mother and a son and this leads to a very personal reflection, which one could be forgiven for thinking is Weir’s own experience but is not. Whereas, in War Photographer the experience is that of a third-party bystander, who was employed to take pictures of the conflicts and sell these, but Duffy shows that the powerful emotions evoked by the pictures mean that the persona is not able to see this as a purely business and unemotional transaction. Both poets show the powerful emotions through the persona’s and although they are very different in many ways, the suffering of humanity is evident in both poems.

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Power of Memory

Extract from the prelude.

The young boy is haunted by the awesome elements of nature that surround him:

  • _ ‘the grim shape Towered up between me and the stars’_
  • ‘measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me.’
  • ‘That spectacle, for many days, my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense’
  • ‘o’er my thoughts There hung a darkness’
  • ‘a trouble to my troubled dreams’

My Last Duchess

The Duchess is only known through the Duke’s memory of her. He reveals a lot about his own character too:

  • ‘That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive’
  • ‘The curtain I have drawn for you’
  • ‘She had A heart- how shall I say?- too soon made glad, too easily impressed’
  • _ ‘I choose Never to stoop’_
  • ‘I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together’

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Lord Tennyson wanted to remind people of the sacrifices made by the soldiers who lost their lives, during the battle of Balaclava.

  • ‘ “Charge for the guns!” he said.’
  • ‘Boldly they rode and well’
  • _‘Flashed all their sabres bare’ _
  • ‘When can their glory fade?’
  • ‘O the wild charge they made!’
  • ‘Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade’
  • ‘Noble six hundred!’

The soldier’s experience plagues his conscience:

  • _‘probably armed, possibly not’ _
  • ‘I see every round as it rips through his life-‘
  • _ ‘His blood-shadow stays on the street’_
  • ‘the drink and the drugs wont flush him out-‘
  • ‘He’s here in my head when I close my eyes’
  • ‘his bloody life in my bloody hands

The mother remembers her last experiences with her son, before he went off to war:

  • ‘smoothed down your shirt’s upturned collar
  • ‘steeled the softening of my face’
  • ‘play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little’
  • ‘A split second and you were away, intoxicated.’
  • ‘After you’d gone I… released a song bird’
  • ‘ I listened hoping to hear your playground voice’

War Photographer

The photographer captures distressing moments that are experienced in war-zones:

  • ‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
  • ‘hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now’
  • ‘A stranger’s features faintly start to twist’
  • ‘a half-formed ghost’
  • ‘blood stained into foreign dust’

The Emigree

The speaker’s childhood memories of her country of origin are being tainted by her adult understandings:

  • ‘There once was a country… I left it as a child’
  • ‘my memory of it is sunlight-clear’
  • ‘The worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view’
  • ‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants’
  • ‘child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll’

The daughter is relaying her father’s experience, as a Kamikaze pilot.

  • ‘Her father embarked at sunrise’
  • ‘a samurai sword… a shaven head full of powerful incantations’
  • ‘remembered how he and his brothers waiting on the shore…’
  • ‘this was no longer the father we loved’
  • ‘And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die.’

kamikaze and poppies comparison essay

Power & Conflict - Comparison of 'The Emigrée’ and ‘Poppies’

‘the emigrée’ and ‘poppies’ comparison model answer.

GCSE English Language - Power & Conflict Sample Answer

Check out this free extract of an expert-written sample answer comparing two power and conflict poems!

Model Answer

Compare the ways poets present feelings about separation because of conflict in ‘the emigrée’ and one other poem from  power and conflict ..

Both Carole Rumens’ ‘The Emigrée’ and ‘Poppies’ by Jane Weir deal with their narrator’s feelings about a separation they’ve experienced as a result of conflict: ‘The Emigrée’, anemigrant who longs for the city she grew up in and was forced to leave as a child, ‘Poppies’, a mother who lost her son to military service in WWI and fears he has died in combat.

kamikaze and poppies comparison essay

While both poems deal with a tragic separation and the narrators’ experience of something akin to grief as a result of this, they also present what the narrator has been separated from as a source of hope and inspiration for them. Rumens’ narrator’s memory of the place she left is ‘sunlight-clear’. Despite the harrowing news of war and destruction she hears at regular intervals regarding her once home-city – ‘The worst news I receive’ – she is ‘branded by an impression of sunlight’.

Meanwhile, Weir’s narrator’s tone suggests that she remembers fondly the last time that she saw her son, how she was strong for and proud of him, and how she wished him well, although she must have known, even then, that she might never see her son again: ‘I was brave… to the front door, threw/it open, the world overflowing’.

And later, she longs ‘to hear’ her son’s ‘playground voice’, which, we assume is a description of her son’s ‘voice as a child, rather than a description of how her she remembers her soldier son’s voice sounding because this would make her happy…

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AQA Power & conflict Compare Poppies & Kamikaze New specification exam revision with structure strip

AQA Power & conflict Compare Poppies & Kamikaze New specification exam revision with structure strip

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    Both 'Poppies' and 'Kamikaze' explore loss. In Poppies, Weir explores the loss that mothers feel when their children go off to war. She deliberately doesn't mention one particular war, so that the experiences in the poem can apply to any war at any time. Weir makes the mother's feelings of loss clear by writing 'released a ...

  2. Kamikaze and Poppies comparison essay Flashcards

    Introduction. Though narrated by people on opposing sides of World War 2, both 'Kamikaze' and 'Poppies' are poems told by women who are left behind by men when they went to war, and they present various different emotional conflicts which ensued as a result of this. The primary conflict which underpins both poems is the conflict of loyalty to ...

  3. Kamikaze

    The essay you are required to write in your exam is a comparison of the ideas and themes explored in two of your anthology poems. It is therefore essential that you revise the poems together, in pairs, to understand how each poet presents ideas about power, or conflict, in comparison to other poets in the anthology. ... Kamikaze and Poppies ...

  4. Kamikaze vs Exposure

    Compare the ways poets present ideas about conflict in Kamikaze and one other poem from 'Power and Conflict'. In Kamikaze the conflict is both personal as well as national. The national conflict of war causes inner conflict as the pilot is torn between his mission and his desire to return home.

  5. Poppies

    The essay you are required to write in your exam is a comparison of the ideas and themes explored in two of your anthology poems. It is therefore essential that you revise the poems together, in pairs, to understand how each poet presents ideas about power, or conflict, in comparison to other poets in the anthology. ... Poppies and Kamikaze ...

  6. Kamikaze + Poppies

    Compare the way the poets present the after effects of conflict in 'Kamikaze' and 'Poppies'. Grade 9 GCSE AQA English Literature Poetry- Kamikaze and Poppies Essay. Clearly structured in the format required of the AQA mark scheme. Clear topic sentences, grade 9 analysis of quotes, varied subject terminology and analytical verbs.

  7. AQA Power and Conflict

    Helping you revise for your GCSEs -Comparing poetry - Power and Conflict

  8. Aqa Grade 9 Model Essay Comparing Kamikaze and Poppies

    AQA GRADE 9 MODEL ESSAY COMPARING KAMIKAZE AND POPPIES. Subject: English. Age range: 14-16. Resource type: Assessment and revision. File previews. docx, 30.01 KB. TWO COMPARASION ESSAYS ON.

  9. Kamikaze and Poppies comparison Grade 9 essay

    Kamikaze and Poppies comparison Grade 9 essay. Subject: English. Age range: 14-16. Resource type: Other. File previews. docx, 16.4 KB. Teachers and students of AQA Power and Conflict cluster of poems. A Grade 9 standard essay comparing the presentation of personal, familial and national identity in Kamikaze and Poppies.

  10. Poppies & Kamikaze

    Poppies & Kamikaze. CircleAndTriangle Poetry March 25, 2018 ... Although this essays shows a very personal and sensitive understanding of both of the poems, and would be a 5 or 6. There is clear understanding of the poets ideas, the comparison is well chosen, and there are a few well chosen quotes to explore how the poets express their ideas. ...

  11. PDF AQA English GCSE Poetry: Power and Conflict

    The poem Kamikaze explores a daughter's reflection on her connection and relationship to her father who was a Kamikaze pilot in WWII and decided not to complete his suicide mission. It follows her train of thought as she thinks about the journey her father would have made to go on the mission and she relates her father's experience to the ...

  12. Why I love…Comparing in the AQA Anthology: Poppies ...

    Both Poppies and War Photographer show the power of touch in bringing powerful memories to the surface. In Poppies this is done through the memory of tactile acts of care between the mother and the son and in War Photographer through the developing of the film and the release of the memories as a result of the pictures that were taken.

  13. Kamikaze and Poppies comparison essay Flashcards

    1st paragraph Poppies quote 2 analysis - complete rhyme - nursery-rhyme-like, childish and nostalgic - highlights the conflict between mother's desire to embrace her son and his duty to go to war Furthermore, in both 'Kamikaze' and 'Poppies,' the poets present the conflict between the government's glamourised, patriotic presentation of war, and ...

  14. Power of Memory

    Poppies. The mother remembers her last experiences with her son, before he went off to war: 'smoothed down your shirt's upturned collar 'steeled the softening of my face' 'play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little' 'A split second and you were away, intoxicated.' 'After you'd gone I… released a song bird'

  15. War Photographer

    While Duffy's War Photographer uses a detached, third-person voice, Weir chooses a nostalgic and emotional first-person reflection in Poppies to portray the wide-reaching impact of conflict. Evidence and analysis. War Photographer. Poppies. Duffy distances the reader by telling the story of a photographer in a dark-room in third-person narration.

  16. PDF AQA English GCSE Poetry: Power and Conflict

    Differences In Poppies, the narrator's physical loss is shown by the wistful "I listened, hoping to hear // your playground voice" . Conversely, in Kamikaze, the main character's father is rejected by society rather than killed and she has to "live as though he had never returned" .

  17. Kamikaze poppies essay.docx

    Both 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland and 'Poppies' by Jane Weir present the past as a powerful force yet in different tones. The two poets, Garland and Weir, show that memory shapes and forces identity. However, 'Kamikaze' tends to view the past in general in a more positive light (despite the lugubrious title linking to ww2 fighter pilots) using a typically whimsical list of ...

  18. 'The Emigrée' and 'Poppies' Comparison Model Answer

    'The Emigrée' and 'Poppies' Comparison Model Answer. Check out this free extract of an expert-written sample answer comparing two power and conflict poems! Model Answer Compare the ways poets present feelings about separation because of conflict in 'The Emigrée' and one other poem from Power and Conflict.

  19. AQA Power and Conflict Unit: Kamikaze and Poppies

    AQA Power and Conflict Unit: Kamikaze and Poppies. Subject: English. Age range: 11-14. Resource type: Lesson (complete) File previews. pptx, 4.67 MB. This resource helps students to build the skills to compare the 'Poppies' to 'Kamikaze'. The resource contains detailed analysis and a model essay. Tes paid licence How can I reuse this?

  20. Kamikaze and Poppies comparison essay Flashcards

    1st paragraph topic sentence. Though narrated by people on opposing sides of World War 2, both 'Kamikaze' and 'Poppies' are poems told by women who are left behind by men when they went to war, and they present various different emotional conflicts which ensued as a result of this. The primary conflict which underpins both poems is the conflict ...

  21. Summary Poppies and Kamikaze detailed comparison plan

    Detailed comparison plan between Poppies and Kamikaze. Includes 2 comparison thesis statements, quotes and language analysis, structure and context for both poems. ... Writing on Murder - A Model Essay for Criminal Law Students Lana Law Books & Norma\'S Big Law Books. Popular books for Medicine, Health and Social Sciences.

  22. AQA Power & conflict Compare Poppies & Kamikaze New specification exam

    AQA power and conflict poetry Comparison bundle - new specification GCSE. 5 differentiated lessons to support students in comparing the AQA power and conflict poetry <br /> <br /> Includes sample answers and structural tips<br /> <br /> Comparisons:<br /> - Kamikaze and Poppies<br /> - Exposure and Storm on the island <br /> - Storm on the island and Extract from the prelude<br /> - Ozymandias ...

  23. Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland

    GCSE; AQA; Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland - AQA Comparison. A poem about a kamikaze pilot who returns home and faces rejection. The poem's content, ideas, language and structure are explored.