Brief Summary of Babylon by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell

When I read F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Revisiting Babylon", it was a story that American representatives returned to Paris. The hero is named Charlie Wales. We found him talking about the whereabouts of his friend who was drinking at the Ritzburgh and bartender. Compared to years ago he stated that he was most missed in Paris. Charlie said he is working on his own for over a year and now he lives in Prague. Then he departed by taxi and walked through Paris without a purpose.

"The death of The Gunners" by Randall Jarrell is a poem about the storm of war and even useless things in life. Turret gunners are one of the most dangerous tasks for airborne crews. When pushed into the Plexiglas dome, the gunner had only a small maneuvering space. Most men choose the position of the fetus to compensate for the extreme weather that must bear with a narrow place. "I fell down in the country as a result of my mother's sleep. / I turned over until my wet fur froze" (1-2). The first line seems to indicate that he was involved in this dilemma when he was born, he is just another number. You must eventually give up on the "uterus" from the aircraft fuselage or your own mother; from that moment you may soon face death. However, Jarrell may send another message. Jarrell tries to lead the fears and mysteries of thousands of young fighters

The poet uses words to express and communicate ideas. It is to embody it in a shareable form. In the ball of the ball turret gunner, Randall Jarrell explained the very serious idea of ​​"I wash away from the turret with a hose when I died" (720) using the last sentence. This line represents a very unrelated end idea of ​​wasting life. If people deal with similar ideas and ideas, the traditional language format may not be enough to express these new ideas. This is why poetry has evolved for centuries and adopted many different language forms.

Randall Jarrell's "The Death of The Gunners" tells us the waste of life and a ruthless war. The turret gunner is probably the most dangerous job among the crew. When entering the ball turret, the gunner has very little space to move and it is very narrow. In this narrow space, the gunman faced a very cold temperature and had to push it into the position of the fetus: "I felt a state from my mother's sleep. -2" In most cases, Especially in this poem, when the turret and gunner leave the "womb" of the Air Force, he will fall from the torso and face death. When tying this to real birth, Jarrell may say that people born in this world eventually have to face death, and some people will be faster than others. Jarrell also gives us a deeper understanding of the cruelty of war.