The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

least one of those, or all of them together, should provide the big picture. For example, in the poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” one can tell what it is about by the title alone. This poem has plenty of figurative language, but by looking at the title, one knows that it is about a ball turret gunner’s death. One example of figurative language in “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” expresses, ”And I hunched in his belly till my wet fur froze.”…

In “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” the usage of metaphors and imagery throughout Jarrell’s poem helps the reader understand the overall theme of how war can cause death and wreak havoc in a young person, how can be a struggle for the soldier’s family, and how disappointing it is when a man doesn’t reach his full potential in life because of being forced to go to war. Jarrell uses key words throughout his poem to show us how war can be a terrible thing, especially for the young people…

The poems “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell all have an anti-war theme. They all have different settings of where the war takes place. Hardy’s poem takes place during the Boer War where many of the women and children died in camps. Owen’s poem takes place during World War I on the battle field and Jarrell’s poem takes place in a B-17 bomber during World War II. All of these authors have similar…

their own opinions about it. In the two poems, the authors express opposite opinions about war due to their experiences. The resentful and angry tone of “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randal Jarrell conveys that the life of a soldier is not as glorious as depicted by the media;…

This poem is just what it sounds like, it is about the commitment of a young man to the war and his death while fighting as a ball turret gunner. After his death he narrates his time in the war and from the very first line of the poem he says, “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State”(92). When we read this line we cannot help but imagine the lifeless body of a man that once…

drilling for oil in Romania. “The forgotten 500” informs what the airmen near Yugoslavia went through to stay alive after they had to parachute out of their planes when they were shot down. Freeman uses actual people such as “Clare Musgrove” a ball gunner at the 15 Air Force to tell the story of the 500 which keeps things real for people. Freeman’s also writes for people who just read for a good story or for those who would like to study ww2 and ww1 history. So what was the forgotten 500 about…

The piece gives us a full frontal view of the soldier’s tragic death, literally down to how his body was removed from the machinery he was working with. While the commentary isn’t quite as in one’s face, there is still a clear enough image presented that death in war may be honorable to many, but that doesn’t mean it is any less painful or messy. Randall Jarrell had his own unique perspective on this having been…

The men are boldly riding into a battle where their chances of winning are low, but they do not let fear get the best of them. Without hesitation, they ride “into the valley of Death”(7). The biblical allusion suggests that they are leading and protecting the citizens from the horrors by charging into battle. They will be the saviors by risking their life to protect the greater population. The men may not make it back, but when…

“The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams is an example of a classic tragedy. However, the characters in the drama do not encounter death. The characters encounter family instability, abandonment, and resentment. The title of this drama accurately represents these characters. Amanda, the mother of family, refers to her daughter Laura’s collection of glass figurines as a glass menagerie. This means her collection acts as a glass zoo filled with animal figurines. Yet, “The Glass Menagerie” could…

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of The Study Poetry is one of genres in literature. When we try to define it, we will find out that poetry, just like love, is not something easy to be defined. Laurence Perrine in “Sounds and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry” (1969:3) defines poetry as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language. From that definition, we can say that poetry contains a complexity of human’s feeling and mind. In order to…