13 -1 Randall Jarrell

               

      

Randall Jarrell was a teacher most of his life. He stated if he was rich he basically like teaching so much that he would teach for free. Jarrell was a poet and attended Vanderbilt University. Because he had been in the arm forces he wrote of his time there.

The poem Losses written by Jarrell he wrote of death in the air force. I guess this was what he had seen in his time in the arm forces. He writes of death and the loss of death it wasn’t about dying we have died before, but the loss of the person. And how many losses there were. In the new planes with new people I gather was that the other people he had been with before had died. He writes of how their death would be made by a mistake that someone had made. I see this being how important his job was.And how a mistake would kill the people in the plane. The people they had killed and never knew them or seen them. We read our mail and count our missions. I would think he was thinking just how many missions they had left before they were done and could leave. When we lasted long enough they gave us metals. But if they died they were low of causalities. So some of his fellow forces were dead and the cities were burned from the maps they were given with their mission. If they crashed they were given the wrong information and used wrong navigation to establish their position. The planes were taken down by the power lines that they had not navigated right. We blazed up on the lines were the power lines that they struck while in flight. I enjoyed this poem even though it was of death and dying.