Randall Jarrell’s “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”

The tone of this poem can be described as melancholy. It tells of a soldier in a war. The third line states he was "loosed from its dream of life" meaning that he will never be able to go back and live the life he once had planned for himself. The last line shows the inhumanity of war because he was "washed out of the turret with a hose."