 Now that you have spent some time reading and considering the imagery, connotation, and theme in Randall Jarrell's poem, please respond to the following writing prompt:
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2/12/2015 04:05:22 am
"From my mother's sleep I fell into the state". He is a young boy fighting for his state. "I launched in its belly till my wet fur froze". Its like a baby being born. But its a young boy in a wet bomber jacket locked in a ball turret. "Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life." Six miles above the earth on an airplane. "I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters". He was in battle against black flak and other planes. He's in danger. He knows something bad is going to happen that's why he said "nightmare". This poem is about a baby being born and its also about the ball turret gunner being young and fighting for his country. The gunner being scared knowing that something bad is going to happen.
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2/12/2015 04:05:39 am
Well in the first line when the writer says "from my mothers sleep I fell into the State," figuratively I believe the author is trying to say that the soldiers were so young it felt like they had very little to no time after birth until they gave their lives to the government. "my mothers sleep" being birth and "State" being the government/ war. and for the second and third line when the author says " and I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life," I believe the belly represented the ball turrent in wich the gunner is placed and the position he is in something like the fetal position. and when he says "loosed from its dream of life, "it" being the earth and loosed as in we changed the image of the way earth is suppose to be by being up so high, like we weren't meant to fly were land creatures and land is where we're suppose to stay. finally I believe the last line represents how the author feels towards death, specifically in war. " when I died they washed me out the turrent with a hose", basically saying that when the warrior dies, hes just dies and that's it they clean up the mess and find a new soldier to replace you and life goes on!
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2/12/2015 04:07:00 am
I would interpret that there is a lot of young men lying about being 18 just to fight for their country. Some of these young men would enter the military without and parent consent. They were basically used for one thing and that’s to be in the ball turret, and be one of the first ones to get killed. They job was to shoot and take down any opposing fighter jet that was coming near. They was also the first target that the others went after in the air because whoever was in the ball turret was the main focus of the defense. The men in the jet wore big fur coats to keep warm because it wasn’t any heat or anything on the plane due to having to have all the weight they can to carry the ammo. After the battle was over, the left over remain of the gunner was rinsed right out with a water hose. I feel like the author is basically saying that you will put your live and freedom up on the line for others and you country, but soon as you are killed you are just a waste except to your family. He is saying that this real life is a nightmare that you cannot awake from.
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2/12/2015 04:08:03 am
I would interpret that a lot of young men under age of 18 join the State to fight for our country. The young men would go into the military without their mothers knowing. They would go work for the State voluntarily. They would slide into a turret on a war plane. Once the person got hunched into the turret someone would close the turret so the turret could move. When they were in war they couldn’t put heaters on the plane and it was usually being freezing in the air plane. The men would have to wear like big fur coats. And when the men would breath and it was still cold their breath would make perspiration and stick to their furs on their coats as if it was sweat. When he said I woke to black flack and a nightmare of life. Means he woke up to reality like this is my life. I’m a little kid fighting in the military like I’m the one that this is really about when I die it will be real life. They were thinking yes this is real this isn’t a dream I left my home to fight in the war for the State. The last line “When I died the washed me out of the turret with a hoes.” Meaning that the people in the war were expendable that was quickly replaced if they died. People would die every day and the State would just replace them. When they got killed in the turret they would leave blood or brains or goo so the State would just wash them out literally with a hose. War makes people expendable they would and could just replace people. So people little kids would go off and fight and risk their lives really for nothing. They die and then they are replaced like no one cared or would even wince when they died just wash them out like trash.
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2/12/2015 05:44:56 am
in the first line it says “from my mother’s sleep i fell in to the state” which means that the soldiers were young in their mothers womb and when they are born its into the US government, in the second line it says “and i hunched in its belly till my wet fur frozen” which is like a baby in the belly getting ready to be born out but then a young soldier being trapped in wet furry jacket locked up in the turret gunner. the third and fourth line “Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, i woke up to black flak and the nightmare fighters.” meaning that he was in battle way high above the earth where its losing its way of life but then he suddenly wakes up into a horrible thing like a nightmare as stated. the last line “when i died they washed me out of the turret with hose” and with particular line the poet is trying to say that when you die in turret they just removed out of it clean it up then just get replaced by another soldier who wants to fight and goes on till the end of the war which war makes people expendable.
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2/12/2015 02:19:29 pm
In the poem that I read yesterday what I thought about it was that about a mom that was giving birth because of the way that the author was describing and that he also make it seem like he was being killed. And if you hear the descriptions that is like being said like for example; “I fell into the state and I hunched in to its belly.” And just the way it is worded and I think that it is making it seem a little weird. I honestly think that in this little poem it has key word in it that we've notices and circled that makes the poem. For example the word died makes the whole story and I say this that because it seems like the person know that they was going to die or is already dead and they made it seem like that was in word. Like it's not many small words that can make a poem mean something and personally I don't think that it makes a difference.
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3/3/2015 12:14:39 pm
I agree because my first thought was that it was talking about a mother and her giving birth to a new born until we talked about it in more depth and how he/she was speaking figuratively
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2/12/2015 02:37:21 pm
The poem was about how soldiers were lining up so young to go into war. And how being in a terrot was like being in a mothers womb because they were so young. And how they fought for there mother state because that's where there from that's what they know and want to protect. Them being protected by there terror like aothers womb and knowing there coming to a a slow painful death protecting there mother state.
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2/23/2015 03:03:15 am
From in the first line where the writers says "from my mothers sleep I fell into the state." this quote tells a lot about how the author wants use to get this great image about war and good outlook on soldiers how they were lined up, how they were in a lot of injured because they were so young doing these harmful things. Some died a slow painful death this article was a good article to read.
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2/28/2015 07:45:50 am
Based on the first four lines of the poem I would think that the author is talking about a baby being born and being unaware of his surroundings. And how being in his mother's womb would be so safe its like being six miles from earth same front the realities and dangers of life. Only to be born and wake up to the harshness that is the world and that nightmares that come along with being born into it. The last line when it say's " when I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose." To me he was saying that the lives of those that surved for this country aren't that important. That they were expandable to the u.s. government.
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3/2/2015 02:59:52 pm
Alright well in the first line the writer says "from my mothers sleep I fell into the State," I think that the author is trying basically trying to say that these soldiers where just so young and they were brought to this world for such a small amount of time and dying for their country or the government wasn't worth it. "My mothers sleep" referring to the birth and "State" being the government or the war. In the second and third line when the author says "I hunched in it's belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from Earth, loosed from its dream of life" I think that the belly represented the ball turrent in which the gunner is in and the position he is in it's like some type of fetal position and when he says "loosed from its dream of life" being the earth and loosed as in we changed the image of the way earth is suppose to be by being up so high, basically meaning like we were not meant to fly amd we're land creatures and land is where we're supposed to be on. In the last line I believe that it represents how the author feels towards death, not just only death but death at war; "when I died they washed me out the turrent with a hose" literally stating that once a soldier dies in war it's just like business, just clean up the mess, forget about it and get a replacement soldier to take his place because war is war. Comments are closed.
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