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Analysis and comments on The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell

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Comment 29 of 49, added on March 24th, 2011 at 12:47 PM.
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Comment 28 of 49, added on March 14th, 2011 at 3:14 PM.
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Inoniadyday from United States
Comment 27 of 49, added on March 9th, 2011 at 5:14 PM.
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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

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Comment 26 of 49, added on March 3rd, 2011 at 9:13 AM.
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Comment 25 of 49, added on March 3rd, 2011 at 9:07 AM.
Hello People of Earth

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are
very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and
threats when they fail.

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Comment 24 of 49, added on February 21st, 2011 at 4:50 PM.
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Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing
down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

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Comment 23 of 49, added on December 16th, 2010 at 12:00 AM.
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Comment 22 of 49, added on October 27th, 2010 at 12:00 AM.
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Comment 21 of 49, added on June 13th, 2010 at 5:45 AM.
Dramatic Character

This poem is impersonal in nature and the speaker is a dramatic character,a
soldier, who had been killed in the war.Yet the irony womb, and imagery
recalls the earlier mother womb.The poet begins with the abstract yet
unhappy assertion in the first line.Ball Turret us fighter plane and the
setting of this poem is battle field inside the fighter plane.So this poem
is highly symbolic and full of irony.
From my mother's womb, I fell into the state, where state refers for the
mechanism or that stands for the condition of the speaker.Staying silently
inside fighter plane and plane is is in the sky over six miles from the
earth.Here we can see how poet imagine the post humors situation.
He compare both wombs. Mother womb and womb if fighter plane.Both is full
of darkness and constrained,
This soldier is not born because he cannot experience outer life.So,i can
say that the child was transplanted from one womb to another womb (inside
the fighter plane)
Last line of the poem is very ironical.Poet imagine post humors
situation,He say they wash me out of the Turret with a hose.So after that
nothing would remain of me.It means when the soldier died, the state tried
to erase the historical trace,And the history will be written from the
perspective of the state, but not in favor of dead soldier.So the poet
clearly shows the instrumental use of soldier in the battle field.So the
fighter plane here compared with the mother womb which has no light.Before
the soldier dies he is given the hope of history but after he dies, same
people turns the history into the historiography and the soldier fighting
for the nation are the victim of Historiography.So when i calmly think
about poet attitude i found he want universal brotherhood, And he believe
in love,care and respect and loyalty.Not in war.

Kaurav Bogati
GPO Box: 24587, Kathmandu Nepal
email:kauravbogati@hotmail.com

Kaurav Bogati from Nepal
Comment 20 of 49, added on July 11th, 2009 at 3:57 PM.

Just to state the obvious, poems aren't about literal (to the letter)
representations. They are deliberately ambiguous, and use meter, rhyme,
etc. as a kind of 'head fake' to make you move one direction and surprise
you by winding up somewhere else. Abortion is not 'in there' but is
consistent with what is there - the issues of 'state vs. individual,'
'choice vs. right to life' are illuminated by the words. It is what the
scientists call a 'thought experiment.' Loosen up, y'all!

Holland Whitten from United States

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