Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner Analysis

The first poem I choose to review was “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell on p. 583. The first 4 lines are images that depict a young man who goes off to war, to find himself in the ball turret of a fighter plane. The time of this section is almost one of disbelief, as the narrator treats the experience as if it's a dream. The final line of the poem, however, changes all of that, because the real tone of the poem is one of indifference toward war. After the ball turret gunner dies, they wash him out of the Ball with a hose. There's no ceremony at all. Just cleaning it out so another soldier can enter it...and the cycle will then repeat itself

The last poem I reviewed was “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar on p.