From my mother's sleep," and later juxtaposed with the cruel, life-threatening, reality of the situation-- "Six miles from earth" and surrounded by "black flak and nightmare fighters.
It is accompanied by an author's note that highlights the subject's fetus like appearance, a resemblance echoed in the poem itself by the line "From my mother's sleep," and later juxtaposed with the cruel, life-threatening, reality of the situation-- "Six miles from earth" and surrounded by "black flak and nightmare fighters." First published in the 1945 collection Little Friend, Little Friend, whose title refers to a term of endearment used by bombardiers for friendly planes, FTP what Randall Jarell poem ends with a dead pilot being washed out of the plane with a hose.
It is accompanied by an author's note that highlights the subject's fetus like appearance, a resemblance echoed in the poem itself by the line "
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner