"The Fury of Aerial Bombardment": Theme Described and Argued

“The Fury of Aerial Bombardment”: Theme Described and Argued

By: Donald Goode

Dramatic events in the world cause people to vent their frustrations in many ways. This can be done in a verbal speech, a written article, and act of violence, or a poem of thought. A poem of thought is what Richard Eberhart has done in, “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment”. The theme of this poem is described with questions and angry emotion. Who is the poet angry at? Is it mankind, for the warpath and destruction it creates? Or is it God, who lets this destruction happen in its uncertainty?
Richard Eberhart uses harsh descriptive words in his poem to define the emotions. An example of this is located in the first paragraph. He states, “You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent” (808). The key word here is fury. Fury in this instance is a direct description of a violent occurrence, like the destructive path from a hurricane, or a tornado. T...