Modernism and Ball Turret Gunner Essay

In this poem it says at the start everything is g quondam(a) or perfect then it goes away in the dying which has loss of faith. It is rejecting Eden as a hero and who is flawed. The Life You Save May Be Your knowledge is modernism because a guy shows up, asks for work, takes the truck, and leaves the blind girl he married at a restaurant. This shows how a human mind can work in an evil way. He took the old ladies blind girl that has never left home before and she loves her daughter and never wanted her to leave home except the contrasted man took her and left her all by herself.There is no hero in this taradiddle. The old lady didnt do much to be a hero and neither did the blind girl. The strange man was the opposite of a hero, was greedy, and selfish by taking the car and leaving after he repaired it. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner is a contemporary work because it comments on itself by saying, When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hoses. This poem has mult iple meanings. One meaning is that he is in his moms stomach. The second meaning is him in the ball turret of a B-17 airplane. This is very personal.He got killed fighting for his country and they sprayed him out with a hose and didnt give him the proper burial and respect. shadow is also a contemporary work because it is very personal. He was put in a expiry camp for many an(prenominal) years treated like crap because he was jewish. They b arely fed the prisoners so they starved and died. They would also kill them with gas and work them to death. He talks about the past with no fear so everyone knows what happened in the past. The whole story is commenting on itself by explaining what happened at those death camps. more or less of these stories and poems are modernist and contemporary works. Whether is in our past or present its still important. The works have many meanings and community enjoy reading them for the meaning of it not just to be entertained by the story but the tr ue meaning of it. Poems and short stories have made a big impact in education and the way society is. Many people love poems and short stories but other people can hate them. I dont like them my self but they still are important in education and for our future world.