Literature is known as a published written work composed of many literary elements. Literary elements are the writer's artistic techniques to set up or convey a specific message to us as readers. Symbolism is a double-edged sword for most writers, because it adds double meanings to the work. The author shows symbolic meanings and our mind sees that image in our brain and we automatically refer to it or compare it to something. What a symbol represents in a story is related to the context in which it is provided. In Randall Jarrell's “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” he points to the literary element. Just as in "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost the symbolism is clear both in the name and in the story. In Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" he indicates the use of symbolism in a work of poetry. The poem was written in 1945, the time when World War II began. The “ball turret gunner” is a machine gunner positioned upside down in a glass sphere on the outside of a bomber. From the title we can already guess that this person is already dead, perhaps a speech after his known death was imminent. The story begins with the words “From my mother's sleep I fell into the State.” He awoke from his mother's sleep, which sleep is normally known to us as a time of rest, and fell into that state. It wasn't even his sleep, it was his mother's sleep that made everything even more dramatic. As if he had been taken away in the dead of night from under his wing and dropped into the hands of the fate (the military) of the world. Falling is a symbolic word because falling is never truly a happy reason unless it refers to love. Although this dead gunner fell while his mother slept, which may mean a separation… middle of paper… fire, some say in the ice.” One thing is that we don't know when the world will end, but this will happen according to one or another scientist. The world really doesn't know how long it will end, it's not soon. The author talks about the end of the world so freely, without emotion, as if it were inevitable. The symbolic meaning of fire and ice varies depending on the different types of people who remind the author of these elements. The fire we know and think about brings light and heat but also pain and burning. Ice is ignorance and a kind of cold feeling of hatred. Fire and Ice have such deep meanings because they are like the kind of people you will meet every day in life. Poetry makes you relive all the times the world would have ended. The symbol that Fire and Ice is used to represent is the end of times. This symbolic poem was like a kind of vague prediction.