If, in an odd angle of the hutment, 
A puppy laps the water from a can 
Of flowers, and the drunk sergeant shaving 
Whistles O Paradiso!--shall I say that man 
Is not as men have said: a wolf to man? 

The other murderers troop in yawning; 
Three of them play Pitch, one sleeps, and one 
Lies counting missions, lies there sweating 
Till even his heart beats: One; One; One. 
O murderers!... Still, this is how it's done: 

This is a war... But since these play, before they die, 
Like puppies with their puppy; since, a man, 
I did as these have done, but did not die-- 
I will content the people as I can 
And give up these to them: Behold the man! 

I have suffered, in a dream, because of him, 
Many things; for this last saviour, man, 
I have lied as I lie now.  But what is lying? 
Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can: 
I find no fault in this just man. 

 
Si, dans un angle impair du hutment, le chiot de A enroule l'eau du 
bidon de a de fleurs, et le sergent ivre rasant les sifflements O 
Paradiso! --  je dis que l'homme n'est pas car les hommes ont dit: un 
loup à équiper ? 

L'autre troupe de meurtriers dans le baîllement; Trois d'entre eux 
le lancement de jeu, un dort, et les mensonges un comptant des 
missions, mensonges suant là jusqu'à ce que même son coeur batte: 
Un; Un; Un. Meurtriers de O !... Toujours, c'est comment il est 
fait: 

C'est une guerre... Mais puisque ceux-ci jouent, avant qu'elles 
meurent, comme des chiots avec leur chiot; puisque, un homme, j'a 
fait comme ceux-ci ont fait, mais ne sont pas morts -- je contenterai 
le peuple comme je peux et leur donnerai vers le haut ces derniers: 
Voir l'homme ! 

J'ai souffert, dans un rêve, en raison de lui, beaucoup de choses; 
pour ce dernier sauveur, homme, je me suis trouvé pendant que je me 
trouve maintenant. Mais que se trouve ? Les hommes se lavent les 
mains, dans le sang, comme mieux ils peuvent: Je ne trouve aucun 
défaut en cela homme juste. 

 
Wenn, in einem ungeraden Winkel des hutment, A Welpe einhüllt, das 
Wasser von der a Dose Blumen und der betrunkene Sergeant, der 
Whistles O Paradiso! -- soll ich rasiert, sage, daß Mann ist, nicht 
da Männer gesagt haben: ein zu bemannen Wolf? 

Die andere Mördertruppe beim Gähnen; Drei von ihnen Spiel 
Taktabstand, man schläft und die Lügen einer, die Missionen zählen, 
die dort schwitzenden Lügen, bis sogar sein Herz schlägt: Ein; Ein; 
Ein. O Mörder!... Noch ist dieses, wie es getan wird: 

Dieses ist ein Krieg... Aber, da diese, bevor sie sterben, wie 
Welpen mit ihrem Welpen spielen; da, ein Mann, ich, wie diese getan 
haben, aber, nicht starben tat -- ich stelle die Leute, wie ich kann 
zufrieden und gebe ihnen oben diese: Den Mann erblicken! 

Ich habe, in einem Traum, wegen er, in vielen Sachen gelitten; für 
diesen letzten Retter Mann, bin ich gelegen, während ich jetzt liege. 
Aber was liegt? Männer waschen ihre Hände, im Blut, wie gut sie 
können: Ich finde keine Störung diesbezüglich gerechter Mann. 

 
Se, em um ângulo impar do hutment, o filhote de cachorro de A dobrar 
a água da lata de a das flores, e o sergeant bêbedo que raspa os 
assobios O Paradiso! -- devo eu digo que o homem não é porque os 
homens disseram: um lobo a equipar? 

A outra tropa dos murderers em bocejar; Três deles o passo do jogo, 
um dormem, e as mentiras um que contam missões, mentiras que suam lá 
até que mesmo seu coração bate: Um; Um; Um. Murderers de O!... 
Ainda, isto é como é feito: 

Esta é uma guerra... Mas desde que estes jogam, antes que morrem, 
como filhotes de cachorro com seu filhote de cachorro; desde que, um 
homem, mim fêz como estes fizeram, mas não morreram -- eu satisfarei 
os povos como eu posso e dar-lhes-ei acima estes: Behold o homem! 

Eu sofri, em um sonho, por causa dele, em muitas coisas; para este 
último saviour, homem, eu encontrei-me enquanto eu me encontro agora. 
Mas que está encontrando-se? Os homens lavam suas mãos, no sangue, 
como melhor podem: Eu não encontro nenhuma falha neste homem justo. 

 
Si, en un ángulo impar del hutment, el perrito de A traslapa el agua 
de la lata de a de flores, y el sargento borracho que afeita los 
silbidos O Paradiso! --  digo que no es el hombre pues los hombres han 
dicho: ¿un lobo a servir? 

La otra tropa de los asesinos en bostezar; Tres de ellos la echada del 
juego, una duerme, y las mentiras una que cuentan las misiones, 
mentiras allí que sudan hasta que incluso su corazón bate: Uno; Uno; 
Uno. ¡Asesinos de O!... No obstante, éste es cómo se hace: 

Esto es una guerra... Pero puesto que éstos juegan, antes de que 
mueren, como perritos con su perrito; puesto que, un hombre, yo hizo 
como éstos han hecho, pero no murió -- contentaré a gente como 
puedo y le daré para arriba éstos: ¡Behold a hombre! 

He sufrido, en un sueño, debido a él, muchas cosas; para este 
último salvador, hombre, he mentido mientras que ahora miento. ¿Pero 
qué está mintiendo? Los hombres se lavan las manos, en sangre, como 
pueden lo más mejor posible: No encuentro ninguna avería en esto 
hombre justo. 

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• In my words, May 20 – 26 - Don Yorty by Don Yorty (2013/05/26 17:42)

  Filed under Archive, Art, In my words, Poets, Video. Tagged Eighth Air Force, Fiorucci, Hart Crane, My Grandmother's Love Letters, Patricia Field, Patricia Kelly, Randall Jarrell, San Miguel, Tennessee Wlliams, Westside ...
• April 23 <b>Poem</b> | fintelfive by fintelfive (2013/04/23 06:09)

  Half past twelve. How the years have passed. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20583#sthash.oEHYs6Gg.dpuf. April 8 Poem. Eighth Air Force by Randall Jarrell. If, in an odd angle of the hutment, ...
• American <b>Poets</b> Vol 01 | A World,s Heritage Of Native Music by RAM51 (2013/04/09 10:41)

  “No one else,” Randall Jarrell claimed in his The Third Book of Criticism, “has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to the general and the special reader. .... talent for using familiar, even almost dead words, in such a context as to make them suddenly impervious to every ordinary sense; they become unable to speak, but with a great air of being bursting with something very important ... Love is the propelling force behind a great body of his poetry.
• "Behold the Man!" - <b>Randall Jarrell&#39;s</b> &#39;<b>Eighth Air Force</b>&#39; by Clarissa Aykroyd (2013/03/22 12:41)

  This has also led me to think of a poem which I first encountered in university and which makes reference to the events surrounding the death of Jesus. The poem is 'Eighth Air Force' by Randall Jarrell. EIGHTH AIR FORCE ...
• Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » B-29 “Fifi” Needs Help by David Foster (2013/01/03 08:18)

  Excerpts of some of Randall Jarrell's WWII Air Corps poems, here. The Ryuji Nagatsuka quotes are from his .... There is a B-47 at the MIghty Eighth Air Force museum near Savannah. I was there a couple of months ago.
• Why US <b>Air</b> Corps servicemen were allowed to wear such badass <b>...</b> by George Dvorsky (2012/12/07 09:20)

  In honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Lisa Hix of Collectors Weekly has put together a fascinating and sobering article that both commemorates and explains why members of the US Army Air Corp were allowed to customize their bomber jackets to ... The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell. published in 1945. ... My grandmother worked for the American Red Cross at the hospital attached to VIII Bomber Command/Eighth Air Force in England.
• George McGovern In Hospice - Outside The Beltway by Doug Mataconis (2012/10/16 03:58)

  “He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe. Among the medals awarded him was a Distinguished ...
• Quid plura? | “When I was their age, all the lights went out…” by Jeff (2012/09/21 11:50)

  Do you know Randall Jarrell's poem “Eighth Air Force”? A professor of mine in college, who had been a B-17 pilot, quoted the last lines of the poem once from memory–I think we had been discussing Jarrell's essay on Frost's ...
• First Known When Lost: Life Explained, Part Twenty-<b>Eight</b>: "Pain <b>...</b> by Stephen Pentz (2012/07/21 00:10)

  The middle of summer may seem like an odd time to offer up the following poem by Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), given its frigid setting. However .... I appreciate hearing your anecdote about "Eighth Air Force." I understand ...
• An Original <b>Poem</b> in the Style of <b>Randall Jarrell</b> - I am serious, and <b>...</b> by Ben Trube (2012/06/01 06:51)

  Others include the frequent use of appositive phrases, also seen in the poem. Counting, as is used in "Eighth Air Force," has been utilized, and the idea of a child realizing the truth about life and the world - in that it's not all it's ...
• I am serious, and don&#39;t call me Shirley.: <b>Randall Jarrell</b> and His Use <b>...</b> by Ben Trube (2012/05/28 21:28)

  The acclaimed poet and literary critic Randall Jarrell is well known for his expert use of this literary tool in his poems. In doing this, he could paint a picture through his poetry that not only provided a literal meaning, but also a ...
• I am serious, and don&#39;t call me Shirley.: <b>Randall Jarrell</b>: A Man of War by nelsand (2012/05/27 00:00)

  Randall Jarrell expressed his deep passion for poetry and literature through harsh criticism. His style lent itself to another love of his, the battlefield. In 1942 He left the University of Texas at Austin for the United States Air Force ...
• Connections in Unlikely Places: A WWII Genealogy Story | The New <b>...</b> by Phyllis Trager, Volunteer, Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (2012/05/23 10:59)

  One flying air strikes across the North Sea on Germany and Phil part of the air support for the U.S. army advancing up the spine of Italy. I find out differently. The prologue to Bomber ... The American poet, Randall Jarrell was stationed in Texas. Phil earned his gunner's wings at ... a poet or writer of fiction to compose it. Back to Swift's personal take on Ciaridi "like my grandfather, he was twenty-eight years old when he completed training, and the oldest man on his crew.
• I am serious, and don&#39;t call me Shirley.: "<b>Eight Air Force</b>" and <b>...</b> by Ben Trube (2012/05/20 20:30)

  Jarrell, Randall. "Eighth Air Force." Poetry Foundation. harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, n.d. Web. 20 May 2012. Jarrell, Randall. "Goodbye, Wendover; Goodbye, Mountain Home." Poetry Foundation. harriet Monroe Poetry ...
• U nail <b>Poems</b> about War- <b>Poets</b>.org – <b>Poetry</b>, <b>Poems</b>, | Metal Wire <b>...</b> by admin (2012/02/19 18:04)

  by Marvin Bell Before the Deployment / by Jehanne Dubrow Death Fugue / by Paul Celan Dulce et Decorum Est / by Wilfred Owen Eighth Air Force / by Randall Jarrell For the Fallen / by Laurence Binyon For the Union Dead / by Robert Lowell ...
• A flight on a B-17 - Boing Boing by Rachel Hobson (2011/11/25 02:59)

  Once we were in the air, we got the "thumbs up," letting us know we could unlatch our heavy metal belt buckles and explore the aircraft. It took me a few minutes to get my air legs. This is not a move-freely-about-the-cabin kind ...
• Monday musings on Australian literature: Christina Stead <b>...</b> by whisperinggums (2011/10/31 00:00)

  I had never heard of Randall Jarrell but I've just “googled” him of course. Sounds like a .... I haven't reread Jarrell's poetry in years, but remember a few of the poems as pretty good: “8th Air Force” and “90 North” come to mind.
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• The Solitary Bibliophile: The Caedmon <b>Poetry</b> Collection: A Century <b>...</b> by Atomicmom (2011/06/07 16:29)

  The Speed of Darkness. May Swenson. The DNA Molecule. Robert Graves. Poem to My Son. Randall Jarrell. Eighth Air Force. Philip Levine. To My God in His Sickness. Archibald MacLeish. Epistle to Be Left in the Earth ...
• The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner <b>Poem Randall Jarrell Poems</b> by love poems (2011/05/23 14:40)

  You can see more Randall Jarrell poems and quotes. Also enjoy funny, love, friendship, family poems. You can see more famous poems by this author : Hope, Losses, The Olive Garden, A Sick Child, Eighth Air Force, . Poems by Randall ...
• The Caedmon <b>Poetry</b> Collection: A Century of <b>Poets</b> <b>...</b> - Occult Books by Occult Books (2011/05/16 15:07)

  Still Falls the Rain Murial Rukeyser The Speed of Darkness May Swenson The DNA Molecule Robert Graves Poem to My Son Randall Jarrell Eighth Air Force Philip Levine To My God in His Sickness Archibald MacLeish ...
• <b>Randall Jarrell</b>: Life as a writer: American <b>Poetic</b> Critic by megan little (2011/04/26 04:43)

  In 1995 Jarrell wrote a few poems that became best sellers, "Little Friend, Little Friend, "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", and also Eighth Air Force" (Parrish). These are just a few War poems he has written in his life time while ...
• Veterans Day <b>Poems</b> by Becca Klaver - <b>Poetry</b> Foundation by unknown (2010/11/11 02:53)

  Classic and contemporary poems that explore the meaning of Veterans Day. ... “Eight Air Force” by Randall Jarrell. “Armistice” by Sophie Jewett. “At a VA Hospital in the Middle of the United States of America: An Act in a Play” ...
• Bomber County - Airminded by Brett Holman (2010/11/02 20:45)

  A second group of poets were airmen, though they achieved their fame after the war and not necessarily because of it: Randall Jarrell, James Dickey (both later Poet Laureates), John Ciardi. Dickey and Ciardi both served in the Pacific theatre, Ciardi as a B-29 gunner, Dickey in night ... to my mind he wrote some of the best poetry of the air war. This is from 'Eighth Air Force' (1948), about what bombers crews did after a raid: The other murderers troop in yawning;
• Christian memorial day <b>poems</b> - Gifts And Favors Ideas by Justin (2010/05/20 17:59)

  The poem "Eighth Air Force" written by Tennessee-based poet Randall Jarrell explores the humanity of those just and brave soldiers who, despite having retained their boyhood love of life and play, still gathered the courage ...
• <b>Poets</b>&#39; Biographies - جامعه دانشجویان ایران by دل تنگم (2010/04/18 12:02)

  Randall Jarrell Biography Randall Jarrell is best known for his World War II poetry in which he depicts the extreme fears and struggles of the soldiers who fought and died. Poet Robert Fitzgerald. ... In 1942 he left the university to join the United States Army Air Forces, and according his obituary, he "[started] as a flying cadet, [then] he later became a celestial navigation tower operator, a job title he considered the most poetic in the Air Force."[2] His early poetry would focus on the ...
• Ryan&#39;s Hurting World <b>Poetry</b> Anthology - <b>Eighth Air Force</b> by ryanr20098j (2009/11/19 00:51)

  Eighth Air Force. by Randall Jarrell. If, in an odd angle of the hutment,. A puppy laps the water from a can. Of flowers, and the drunk sergeant shaving. Whistles O Paradiso!–shall I say that man. Is not as men have said: a wolf ...
• <b>Poetry</b> « Italy Down Under by admin (2009/10/31 12:03)

  By sheer chance an unmutilated copy was Edith Sitwell However Falls the Rain Murial Rukeyser The Speed of Darkness May Swenson The DNA Molecule Robert Graves Poem with My Son Randall Jarrell Eighth Air Force ...
• THE FUTILITY OF WAR - <b>POEMS</b> AND PROSE by kendrive (2009/07/26 00:05)

  We are now halfway through my presentation of eight suicidal poets and I am moving from the ladies to the. ... Randall Jarrell. * Jarrell, who served in the Army Air Force, provided the following explanatory note: "A ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24, and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine guns and one man, a short small man. When this gunner tracked with his machine guns a fighter attacking his bomber from below, he revolved ...
• Bantering Bibliocrat: Falling into the State: Veteran&#39;s Day by Bantering Bibliocrat (2008/11/11 08:35)

  But I often think he would have liked Randall Jarrell, the poet and former North Carolina Women's College professor whose poems documented his service with the 8th Air Force during World War II. Like Jarrell, my father fell ...
• stephen burt modern american <b>poetry</b> course blog: <b>randall jarrell</b> by Steve (2008/10/28 08:50)

  randall jarrell. Some images: RJ in hammock with cat, at his desk, writing, and behind the wheel of a late-1950s sports car. An entire hour of RJ reading his own poems, with links to individual poems, all from The Lost World. The Bronze David of Donatello. Suzanne Ferguson's timeline of RJ's life. RJ's page at the ... RJ reading aloud "Ball Turret Gunner" and "Eighth Air Force." Richard Flynn on Jarrell and the 1930s. On Mary von S. Jarrell's memoir of her husband.
• Audiobooker: <b>Poetry</b> Friday: The Caedmon <b>Poetry</b> Collection by Mary Burkey (2008/10/17 14:36)

  ... Edith Sitwell -- Still Falls the Rain; May Swenson -- The DNA Molecule; Robert Graves -- Poem to My Son; Randall Jarrell -- Eighth Air Force; Archibald MacLeish -- Epistle to Be Left in the Earth; W.S. Merwin -- The Last One; ...
• Spoons and Despair: From Puppies to Wolves by noreply@blogger.com (Ahmad Ragab) (2008/06/20 08:21)

  Indeed, the theme of the Second World War prefigures dominantly in many of his poems, including the three set for analysis in this paper: “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” “Losses,” and “Eighth Air Force. ... Jarrell in a number of his works adopts various voices, which may be related to his experiences during the war but at the same time distances himself as the particular Randall Jarrell in order to adopt an innocent or at least a voice not informed by the position of ...
• Life Lines- <b>Poets</b>.org - <b>Poetry</b>, <b>Poems</b>, Bios & More by unknown (2008/03/20 09:56)

  Roque Dalton Emily Dickinson Paul Lawrence Dunbar T. S. Eliot Robert Frost Allen Ginsberg Nikki Giovanni Linda Gregg George Herbert Homer Gerard Manley Hopkins Langston Hughes, Richard Hugo David Ignatow Issa Randall Jarrell Robinson Jeffers ..... Your love—your deepest and most impassioned desire-ardor-admiration—turns out to be a force controlling you even as you feel you are choosing to be defined by it. ..... My son's illness is eight years old and has no name.
• Reeding Lessons: Spender Defends - solearabiantree by Reeding Lessons (2008/02/09 01:00)

  An excellent find in the series Poetry Criticism: in the entry for Randall Jarrell is a reprint of a 1948 review by Stephen Spender of Jarrell's collection Losses, from The Nation (1 May 1948). The collection contains many of Jarrell's famous poems which came out of his experiences in the Army Air Force during World War II, including "The Dead Wingman," "Pilots, Man Your Planes," and "Eighth Air Force." Book jacket. Spender compares Jarrell to Robert Lowell, calling ...
• The Rogue Voice: Until the shooting stops by The Rogue Voice (2007/12/01 17:00)

  An ex-soldier's take on recent war poetry. Sinan Antoon. The Baghdad Blues. Harbor Mountain Press, 42 pp., $10. Randall Jarrell. Selected Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 115 pp., $16. Kent Johnson. Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz. Effing Press , 44 pp., $7. Dunya Mikhail. The War Works ... Despite this subliminal familiarity with Jarrell's work, I find that my current circumstances lend new meaning to “Eighth Air Force”: If, in an odd angle of the hutment, A puppy laps the ...
• The War Works Hard- <b>Poets</b>.org - <b>Poetry</b>, <b>Poems</b>, Bios & More by unknown (2007/10/02 10:53)

  How magnificent the war is! How eager and efficient! Early in the morning it wakes up the sirens and dispatches ambulances to various places swings corpses through the air rolls stretchers to the wounded summons rain fro...
• I Hear an Army- <b>Poets</b>.org - <b>Poetry</b>, <b>Poems</b>, Bios & More by unknown (2007/01/24 13:10)

  I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers. They cry unto the night their ...
• Bayou Quilts: Bats in the Belfry by jenclair (2006/05/25 10:50)

  Perhaps Jarrell's best known poems are "The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner" and "Eighth Air Force"... the differences between the war poems and this poem are notable. A new discovery in my Jarrell searches: his children's ...
• Amoah by Eric (2003/12/02 08:23)

  Eighth Air Force (poem by Randall Jarrell) Literal interpretation. Randall compare the airmen to Christ because the y were order to obey and perform criminal act such as the bombed the continent from England just like those ...
• Losses <b>Poem Randall Jarrell Poems</b> by love poems (2001/01/31 17:00)

  It was not dying: everybody died. / It was not dying: we had died before / In the routine crashes– and our fields / Called up the papers, wrote home to our folks, / And the rates rose, all because of us. / We died on the wrong page of the almanac, ...
• Hope <b>Poem Randall Jarrell Poems</b> by love poems (2001/01/31 17:00)

  The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life. / The week is dealt out like a hand / That children pick up card by card. / One keeps getting the same hand. / One keeps getting the same card. / But twice a day — except on Saturday – / The wheel stops ...
• A Sick Child <b>Poem Randall Jarrell Poems</b> by love poems (2001/01/31 17:00)

  Poem A Sick Child by randall jarrell. You can see more Randall Jarrell poems and quotes. Also enjoy funny, love, friendship, family poems. You can see more famous poems by this author : Eighth Air Force, The Woman At The Washington ...

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