Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrell's 1945 poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" ?
Correct answer: A. The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother's womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.
- A. The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother's womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.
- B. The poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.
- C. The poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.
- D. The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.
Explanation
The speaker begins as a child in the womb and ends as a disposable body expelled from the gun turret, linking birth imagery with the wartime reduction of human beings to expendable material. The poem therefore condemns rather than praises war's technology.
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