"The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner" by Randall Jarrell
'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 …
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…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.
Moss 3
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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