In the late 1930s, the Second World War started. Many soldiers were involved in the war and many lost their lives including civilians. The poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” discusses the wastes of a war. It elaborates on life, war and death. Soldiers were born, got in to the war and soon died. Jarrell writes, “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State” (Jarrell 1). This is a symbol of birth.

During the war, most of the soldiers were young and fighting far away from home. The axis powers including Germany, Italy, and Japan sent soldiers to France and the Soviet Union to fight. These soldiers were young and some had been forced in to the war. The treatment by enemy forces during the war was unfair even after death. Jarrell writes, “When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose” (Jarrell 6). After their deaths, the soldiers were treated like dirt, tramped upon by war machines and watched out of the way. The war led to the death of many soldiers on both sides of the forces. Jarrell is giving his own experience in the war. He is giving an insight into the kind of consequences and waste a war brings.

The soldiers fought under inhuman conditions far away from home, Randall writes, “Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life” (Jarrell 3). Far from home, the soldiers died young and their dream of living was taken away from them.

It is intriguing to note that even after the wastes of Second World War, people around the world still engages in tribal and racial wars and never fully recognize the effect such a war can have on the young people.

Works Cited

Jarrell, Randall. “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. Web. 09 Mar. 2016. <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/249774>.

Response to Dailee Marquez

Thoughtful analysis Dailee, in marriage the role of the woman in the 17^th century was to stay home, give birth and look after the children. Occupations and careers for women were very rare. Women were more like servants than companions for men. Chudleigh writes, “Wife and servant are the same, But only differ in the name” (Chudleigh 1-2). The only difference between a wife and a servant at those days was that one was called a wife and the other one a servant. Their duties and treatment in the hands of men was similar. The poem represents the role of women in the society in the 17^th century. Divorce in those times was never an option as Chudleigh demonstrates. They feared their husbands as a god and aware required to always obey them. Though gender discrimination in most parts of the world has ended, it still exists in some parts of the world.

Works Cited

Chudleigh, Lady Mary. “To the Ladies.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2016.

Response to Wenxin Li

Great analysis Wenxin, racism was very alive in America in the 1960s. There were different schools for the “Negros” as they were referred at the time and the whites. The poem “we real cool” talks about the hopelessness the blacks had on the society and the government at large. The kind of segregation they received in those years made them inferior and useless. The African-American youths were the worst affected. Many did not get the chance to finish school for the lack of motivation. Segregation in greater terms always causes inferiority.  The poem is about how the African-American were segregated in schools and how they held strikes to oppose the segregation. Brooks write, “We left school” and “we strike straight” (Brooks 2 and 4). Though they were segregated in all things, the African-American used diplomacy in fighting for their equality by engaging in peaceful strikes and demonstrations while the police were very ruthless in dealing with them.

Work cited

Brooks, Gwendolyn. “We Real Cool.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 08 Mar. 2016.

 
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