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 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Information
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 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner is a five-line poem by Randall Jarrell. It was about a gunner in a Sperry ball turret on a World War II American bomber aircraft, who was killed and whose remains were unceremoniously hosed out of the turret. Jarrell,... 
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 The Nation Poetry's Ball Turret Gunner.(Review) (book reviews)
08/09/1999: 2,667 words, approx. 9 pages NO OTHER BOOK: Selected Essays. By Randall Jarrell. Edited and with an introduction by Brad Leithauser. HarperCollins. 400 pp. $27.50. REMEMBERING RANDALL: A Memoir. By Mary von Schrader Jarrell. HarperCollins. 192 pp. $22. Has anyone read John Dennis? Irving Babbitt? Gorham Munson?... summary from source:
Airpower Inside the sperry lower ball turret.(Brief Article)
09/01/2002: 921 words, approx. 3 pages The lower ball turret that protected the bellies of B-17s and B-24s (and a few B-32s) gained recognition beyond that of any other American bomber armament of World War Two. With its gunner entirely encapsulated and moving in all directions with the guns he...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Patrick F. Bassett
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In the following essay, Bassett analyzes the imagery of “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” underlining a thematic link between “sleep, animality, and death” in the poem.
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Critical Essay by Patrick J. Horner
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Most commentators on Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" have identified the poem's theme as a condemnation of the insensitive, dehumanizing power of the "State," exhibited most graphically by the violence of war. Most have also agreed that the poem's effectiveness is due in large measure to its telescoping of time … and the paradoxical use of birth imagery, especially of the womb and the foetus, to describe death. In commenting on ...
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