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Analysis Of Jarrell's "The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner" - Term Papers

Analysis Of Jarrell's "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 Earth, loosed rom its dream of life.
I woke to the black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell is a poem
about a soldier dying in the ball turret of a fighter plane during what
was most likely World War II. The poem tells of the fear of young
soldiers being sent to war and their thoughts of dying.

The poem is told from the point of view of a young fighter aboard a
bomber during World War II. The fighter is positioned in ...

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death (line 3). When he
awakens to "black flak" and "nighmare fighters" he seems to imply that all
that lies between birth and death is war (line 4).

The theme to this poem emerges in the last line with almost a plea
that he not be forgotten. When he says "they washed me out of the turret
with a hose" he implies that there is nothing left including the memory of
him and the war goes on.

Works Cited

Jarrell, Randall. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." The Harper
American Literature. Ed. Donald McQuade. New York: Harper Collins ,
1996. 2594. ...

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Added: 7/11/2006 05:16:20 AM
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 319
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