Analysis of Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"

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September 18, 2015

 

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This poem is not long enough to have a rhyme scheme even though the second and the fifth line have end rhyme. It is absolutely amazing how Jarrell gives us so many images in only a few short verses. Jarrell uses a great deal of imagery in this poem to help the reader get a better picture of what is going on...
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In the first line of the poem Jarrell uses visual, auditory and tactile imagery. When he uses the words, "mother's sleep," the reader can see the mother laying in her bed sound asleep. Also the reader can hear the deep breaths that the mother is taking while she slumbers. The reader gets the tactile image when the author says, "I fell," because almost everyone has experienced the falling sensation before...
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