“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” Rebeca Espirito Santo The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze Six miles from the earth‚ loosed from its dream of life I woke to black flack and the nightmare fighters When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”
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unheroic deaths. The poems‚ "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" and "Dulce et Decorum est" attempt to touch on the issues of war. In these poems‚ the narrators uses imagery‚ diction and sorrow to show the brutality and sorrow of war. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner‚" by Randall Jarrell speaks of both the futility of life and the callousness of war. The ball turret gunner had perhaps the most dangerous job of the crew. Once inside the ball turret‚ the gunner had little room to move and was very cramped
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Kyle Hammond Mrs. Hammock English 11 April 25‚ 2013 Essay “ The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” ‚ “Nothing Gold can Stay”‚ and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” are modernist works. “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner and Night are contemporary works. Modernism is modern thought‚ character‚ or practice. It is the modernist movement in the arts‚ the sets cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements. Contemporary works are set and written in the time it was written. It makes use
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Impressionism‚ shoots images of weeping families in his poem “War Is Kind” (Literature and its Writers‚ 1063). Randall Jarrell‚ a poet of the early 19th Century‚ displays his experiences of life and death in the Air Forces in his poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (L&W‚ 1065). In Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” (L&W‚ 1064-1065)‚ he paints a grisly
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The speaker of the ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’ is a young soldier who went to the World War II. It can be inferred that while he was home with his family‚ he had to go to the war. He was assinged to an aircraft. The line ‘’And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.’’ is a metaphor. We can say that he was a hitman in that line if we consider the shape of the aircrafts. In the first line‚ the age is emphasized. It seems he had a family and he lived with them. We can say that the
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extremely devastating weapons such as the machine gun‚ and the atom bomb. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" gives a small insight to such chaos. It is a poem written by Randall Jarrel while he served in the Army Air Force during World War II. It is a poem about the thoughts the gunner might have felt as he carried out his mission‚ and is probably based on firsthand experience with a ball turret or a gunner.
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The Balances and Distinctions of Two War Poems The subjects of “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy and “The death of a Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell have to do with soldiers in war situations. These poems reflect several factors that point to duty‚ commitment‚ and simplicity. Both poems suggest the responsibility of participation of war but not necessarily the obligation to join and the separate tones and imagery that imply the dark side of war and the decisions that need to be made. In
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When Jarrell could not quite cut it as a cadet‚ he switched to being a navigation control tower operator. As a control tower operator‚ Randall began to write about the pilots‚ navigators and gunners of the war. This is probably when Jarrell wrote one of his most famous poems‚ "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." After being discharged from the army‚ Randall went back to teaching. Randall’s love for teaching showed by his famous quote‚ "if I were a rich man‚ I would pay money to teach." Randall
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Poetry Response 3 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
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experiences of both black and white soldiers as well the Vietnamese people. The experiences that the soldiers had in wartime are expressed through the feelings of war. These elements convey the loss of individuality of the soldiers. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell‚ conveys the idea of lost identity through the sacrifice of oneself for the good of the whole. Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night by Walt Whitman is another war poem that expresses the loss of individuality through
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