LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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Question
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrell’s 1945 poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”?
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The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother’s womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.
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The poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.
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The poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.
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The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In Randall Jarrell’s poem, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, his attitude towards this certain death with the ball turret was shown little sympathy and more careless. This death was given a tone of careless since he’d woken up from his sleep to only find himself at a heat of battle with the fighters.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem relies on the juxtaposition of the nurturing, protecting, life giving mother with “the State” to show the state as something that breeds death rather than life. By making the title so full of war and death, “mother” in line 1 gets emphasized.
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