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Zeppelins

Zeppelins. By Mendel Nguyen. History of Zeppelins. Zeppelins in War. Zeppelin Raids. End of the Zeppelins. Ballade of Private Ross. Just a coin toss, Heads it was someone else, tails it was Ross, A volunteer Who went to Iraq, was helping to clear Mines to a pit,

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Zeppelins

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  1. Zeppelins By Mendel Nguyen

  2. History of Zeppelins

  3. Zeppelins in War

  4. Zeppelin Raids

  5. End of the Zeppelins

  6. Ballade of Private Ross Just a coin toss, Heads it was someone else, tails it was Ross, A volunteer Who went to Iraq, was helping to clear Mines to a pit, Then heard a discharge, felt the metal hit His legs and face, The fragments finding every open place Of flesh and bone; And when he woke, he lay in bed alone, Amazed to find That he had one leg cut off and was blind. The whole town made Sam Ross a hero: bagpipes, a parade, A home they set On top of a hill, but he could not forget Insistent dreams Of floating, in which his whole body seems In peaceful flight To burst apart in searing flames of light. So he began To drink, and young men took him in a van From his house, down To every bar and strip club within town, New friends, who gave Him everything his loneliness could crave, Although he paid For all the pills they popped and girls they laid; And then one day, His brother’s girlfriend thought she heard him Say “Cocaine” on the phone, And in his fear that she would make this known He pounded her door, Pushed his way in, shoved her aside, and Swore He’d get her back, Grabbed his lighter and set fire to the shack In a drunken daze; And when the firemen came to fight the blaze, He screamed out, “Stop!” Took off and swung his false leg at a cop. We end this tale Of Ross, who tried to hang himself in jail, With you and me: Why him? Why not the rest of us? It’s we Who made him pay For our own failure, took his hope away So he now knows The recompense of arrogance; but those Who sent him there, And we who should the blame and burden share, Can’t comprehend, Can’t bring this futile combat to an end, Watching in despair As helicopters tumble from the air: More coins to toss, More mangled corpses, more like Private Ross.

  7. TPCASTT Title: The title might implies a heroic tale of a Iraq war veteran Paraphrase: After returning from the war dismembered and blind, private Ross finds Himself losing control of his life. Connotation: The diction of the poem is mostly straightforward. “Swore/He’d get her back” Ross appears to be going crazy, believing he was victimized. “Can’t bring the futile combat to end,” the author believes the cause in Iraq is unnecessary and unjust. “Just a coin toss/More coins to toss,” the author sees the fate of Private Ross as merely chance, not that he nor anyone who experiences a similar ordeal deserved it.

  8. Attitude: The author feels the veterans of the war were victims and that the government is responsible. He takes pity on Ross. Shift: We see how an honorable soldier who was celebrated upon his return let his life slip away from him. Title revisited: The ballad of Private Ross is not a heroic story, but a tragedy. Theme: The soldiers of war suffer long after they leave the battle. This is similar to the theme of All Quiet on the Western Front.

  9. Works Cited • http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/winners-of-the-iraq-poetry-contest/ • http://www.airships.net/

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