Exploring the Concept of Death in Three Works of Poetry.
This paper explores the presentation of death in three poems, which are Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", and "Pardon" by Richard Wilbur. It is shown that through presenting an encounter with death as an event from which one "awakens" that the three writers wish their readers to also "awaken" to the reality of death. 3-pages, bibliography lists 3 sources.