Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner Analysis

“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” was a poem written by Randall Jarrell. It talks about a short, small man revolving around a sphere with his turret. In the end he didn’t make it, he lost his life. Their are tons of meaning behind his wording throughout the poem. It starts off with his mother’s sleep. It's telling us that he was asleep inside her mother’s womb as he is going to be born. That leads to the next part “I fell into the State,” which it saying that he is being born in a certain State in America. Then the wet fur froze is another text which is a metaphor which basically means that his sweat froze as he goes up into the sky. That connects with “Six miles from Earth,” which literally means he is six miles about the earth.