Ball turret gunner

does it become a problem? Warfare has been practiced throughout civilization as a way to justify power. Though the orders come directly from one man, thousands of men and women pay the ultimate sacrifice. In Randall Jerrell’s “The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner”, Jarrell is commenting on the brutality of warfare. Not only does Jarrell address the tragedies of war, he also blames politics, war leaders, and the soldier’s acknowledgement of his duties. (Hill 6) With only five lines of text, his poems

The ball turret gunner of the B-17 and B-24 was an important job; however was a dangerous one. In Randall Jarrell’s “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” makes a comparison to a ball turret to a mother’s womb. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner throughout the poem talks about the mother’s womb. From the birth of him, to when he’s in the ball turret, to when he is dead. First, the birth of the gunner. In the poem it says “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State”(ln.1). In this line Jarrell

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” was written around the end of World War II in 1945 by Randall Jarrell. During this time period, Jarrell wrote many poems and novels about the army and the war while he was a celestial training navigator (Pritchard). The poem was written later in Jarrell’s service career. The poem is based on the first-person view of a dead, unknown ball turret gunner of a bomber aircraft. The dead gunner tells us he may have been taken away from his mother and he was drafted or

War Does Evil A Discussion of Three Messages From Randall Jarrell's Gunner There was not a point in this world's history when war was more prevalent, than that of World War Two. During this time, millions of innocent lives were slain, and millions of soldiers died fighting, but were replaced almost instantly. War completely manipulates the human mind, allowing it to commit actions no mind would ever think to conceive otherwise. War takes over the will of humanity, and brings out the ferocity that

“Because I could not Stop for Death “and “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” all highlight different deaths and each having there our unique symbol and importance. In Randall Jarrell`s “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, although short describes a the hard and short lived life of a Ball Turret Gunner who drives a plane that doesn`t have a parachute his plane must have been hit or crashed because early in the poem you can he is death bed. As the Gunner is dying he is having the death flashbacks they say

A Doomed Fate A Critical Analysis of Three Messages in Randall Jarrell’s, Gunner     Douglas MacArthur, an American general during World War II, described those who fight in war as, “The soldier, above all others, prays for peace; for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” Throughout history, war has been a part of every nation. From medieval times to present day, there have been a countless number of wars fought and even more human lives lost. Many short

The importance of writing one’s understanding of war sheds consciousness upon the cruelty, malevolence, and death by ignorance. Reports of cruelty begins with Jarrell's recitation in his poem “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” in which he explicitly connects the death of a young soldier to that of an aborted child. Though only 5 lines long, using metaphoric language Jarrell is able to imply that only death can be fermented from the womb of the war. Harboring readers taunt emotions that stick to them

During war, there are two possible outcomes for a soldier engaged in battle—life or death. In the poem Randall Jerrell wrote in 1945, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, the most significant thing one notices about the speaker is the fact that he's dead. The airman is telling the story of his own death from the grave. This gives a different perspective on the poem than if his friend were the speaker. If the airman’s friend were telling the story, it would have a more dramatic detailed account

woke up," because everyone knows what it is like to wake up from a sleep. In the fifth and final line the reader gets a very graphic visual image. The reader can picture someone's body being so destroyed that instead of removing the body from the turret the soldiers must wash it out with a hose. Jarrell also used a great deal of figurative language in this poem. The entire poem is an extended metaphor. This poem compares the struggles of war with the struggles of being born. More specifically

Jarrell’s poem is about a ball turret gunner for a military unit during a war. The gunner describes himself as being asleep his whole life until he gets killed by an enemy plane. What this means is that, from the day he was born, he did what he was told and obeyed the government (the “State”). The last line of the poem states, “When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.” This line is significant because it implies that the gunner’s