LIFE IS A BATTLE

Suddenly, two weeks passed and September passed too. I realized one thing that every week I would get something special from my poetry class. Poems we learn in class are getting harder to understand, but I enjoy learning them.

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" is a poem written by Randall Jarrell. Jarrell enlisted in the Army Air Corps and many themes of his poems were about war. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" described a ball turret gunner died in the WWII. It is a five-line long nightmare, I just want to "wake up" when I read it. The poem reminds me of a song from Green Day called "Wake Me Up When September Ends". In the music video, the boy decides to to leave his hometown and his girlfriend in order to join the army. He fights in danger while she worries about him everyday. When I read "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", I always feel the first sentence shows that every soldier misses someone back home just like the boy in the music video misses his hometown and his girlfriend. The lyric of "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is like a poem with rhymns. The end of September when "summer has come and passed" just matches with the time right now. I like to read some mordern poems or lyrics because I can find something in common easily.

The past two weeks were a little bit tough for me, I was confused about my life, my friends and I had to take the SAT!!!

"like my father's come to pass"--It was really nice to talk to my dad because family always gave me power to face to the challenges.

"drenched in my pain again"-- My friend says," No pain no gain."

"the innocent can never last"--Because we grow up.

There are so many problems and challenges in our lives, I want to treat each of them like a battle. We should all become brave soldiers if life is a battle! Fighting in fall, I am waiting for the next summer!