In “The Death of the ball Turret Gunner”, Randall Jarrell briefly describes a young man’s journey from the womb of his mother to the metaphorical womb of the ball turret that he dies in. The main message of the poems that war is a cold and horrible thing that makes waste of human life. The poem is written directly after World War two and illustrates its message through the use of an extended metaphor.
The time period is essential to the piece because of how it provides the main setting and conflict of the story. The main setting of the story is the inside of bomber flying over some hostile region of probably Europe. If it weren’t for this poem being written during a time of war then the gunner would never had been there in