c/poetry · by dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world · 1yRandall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" 18 points · 4 comments · view on lemmy.world
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 1y
The poem as a whole felt a little so-so to me, but that last line hits like a truck.
dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Agreed. Makes me wonder if that might’ve been the intention of the opening. The poem is held up by the shock of the last line.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 1y
Definitely smacks of a poem being engineered backwards from the conception of that one line, yes.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
That hits HARD.