ve can be. This frightened man who "fell into the State" straight from his "mother's sleep" was possibly given a hero's burial but at the same time his carcass remains were "hosed" out of the turret. This is an almost obscene gesture. Isaac Rosenburg analyzes a death in war in much the same way. In his poem "Dead Man's Dump" he remarks, "A man's brains splattered on A stretcher-bearers face;" this hideous observation points out to us how un-heroic death on a battlefield actually is. Death as thought about by Jarrell and Rosenberg is not beautiful but messy and possibly even an event of degradation.
             Is death a fate that is left up to us? Or do we die as the direct result of action, or pos
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