War: history, Iraq, death, brown, tan, controversy, blood, hospitals, guns, weapons, cold, black and white, innocent, emotions

Gunner: mentally unstable, black, huge guns, insignificant motive, accurate, emotional, Virginia Tech, gas stations, homicide, man

Attack: dark alley, women, knife point, rampage, hit, shoot, drop bombs, Middle East, red, screaming

A lot of my images are being formed by the Iraqi War footage. I have grown up seeing this and its sad that I associate many of these negative words with a country that we shouldn't be at war with in the first place.

b) World War 2: black and white, British, pearl harbor, japan, Hitler, old fashion weapons/machinery


The Death of the Ball

Now that I understand the meaning of the poem, the words are so much more than what I thought they were. I think the authors message is one that is very realistic. It isn't a pleasant thought to think of especially being washed out by a hose. I think the speaker knew he was going to die when he went up in the air. He didn't have much or any hope.

Randall Jarrell-the same year he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He failed to qualify to fly, however, and instead worked for the Army stateside as a control tower operator

Jarrell's reputation as a poet was established in 1945, while he was still serving in the army, with the publication of his second book, Little Friend, Little Friend, which bitterly and dramatically documents the intense fears and moral struggles of young soldiers

In these poems his earlier, Audenesque style modulated into a flatter, greyer, more homely idiom, appropriate for recreating the dailyness of barracks life as well as the disasters of combat

* I think he was influenced by how he wasn't able to fly like he would of liked to. In stead of showing the postive side, he always went for the negative side