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Analysis Of Jarrell's "The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner"
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....x 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 fight.... Part 2 of Paper
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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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