Jarrell: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner – Reading & Analysis

PODCAST: “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, by Randall Jarrell. Through the eyes of a Brit.

Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" - Video Podcast.
Randall Jarrell (1914-65) is perhaps best remembered for this short poem on the inhumanity of the mechanisms of governmental ...power. Here I talk about my experience of reading the poem and what it came to mean for me.

For the text of the poem, click here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57860/the-death-of-the-ball-turret-gunner

For a recording of Jarrell reading the poem, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tM1oQ_YxTk

For Robert Kunst's paper on the poem, click here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjpp9igjKWEAxXlk1YBHTbtBcYQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcore.ac.uk%2Fdownload%2Fpdf%2F228559875.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0RAiZIFnTY4R8z43_dOvJs&opi=89978449

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