Randall Jarrell was an amazing poet who is most famous for his poems about the blood, gore, and lifestyle of the armed forces and the soldiers that were behind it all. Randall Jarrell was a poet that lived between 1914 and 1965. He enlisted into the armed forces during World War II. Randall is most known for his grueling images the he portrayed in his poems about the war. One of his most famous poems is the poem “ The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”. Randall Jarrell wrote about war realities and experiences that soldiers had happen to them during the war due to the impact the war had on him and others around him. Randall Jarrell was born with that exact name, given by his mother and father. Jarrell was born on may 6th, 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee. His unfortunate death came on October 14th , 1965 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Jarrell was walking either on or near a road when he was struck and killed by a car. Nobody knows for sure if it was a suicide or just a case of bad timing. He joined the armed forces (Air Force to be exact) but he failed to pass his flight test. This put him as the new Celestial Training Navigator, where he trained the new recruits. …show more content…
His parents split when he was young and so he moved across the country to california for a bit before returning back to kentucky (Encyclopedia.com). He took business classes in High School, and went to college for both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree at Vanderbilt University (Encyclopedia.com). He taught a lot of future writers like Peter Taylor (Encyclopedia.com). Randall joined the air force in 1942 (Britannica High). “Actually. Jarrell had been washed out of flight training and spent most of the war on the ground in Illinois and Arizona” according to Encyclopedia.com. Randall Jarrell had a wife to whom he was married to until his death in