Contradictory Views of Soldiers in the War
Contrasting Representations of Soldiers and War Randall Jarrell’s poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (Jarrell, 1945/1980) and Cyril Tourneur’s poem “Epitaph on a Soldier” (Tourneur, 1878) convey contradictory realities associated with soldiers. When comparing the two poems, it is clear

