what do both they do
Both Beatrice Garland’s Kamikaze and Wilfred Owen’s Exposure interrogate the destructive control exerted by national and ideological power over the individual mind.
what does kamikaze do differently
Garland explores how the Japanese pilot’s identity is controlled by the pressures of patriotic duty and the shame imposed by his society,
what do exposure do differently
while Owen exposes how soldiers in World War One are psychologically dominated by nature and the futility of war itself.
overall?
Through imagery, structure, and voice, both poets reveal that control—whether ideological or environmental—dehumanises individuals and leaves them spiritually paralysed.
Yet while Garland presents control as moral and emotional imprisonment, Owen portrays it as physical and existential domination.
