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 * == Randell Jarrell  ==

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||> =Bio= Randell Jarrel born in 1914 at Nashville, Tennessee. His Fathers name is Owen and his mothers name is Anna Campbell. Randell had a sister and a brother. His sisters died in infancy before he was born. His brother Charles was born in 1915. His father's job was a photagrapher in Los Angeles California. When Randell was in his teen years his parents had a divorce and he moved back to Tenesee with his mom. Randell did well in school and showed an early love for libraries.
 * Early Life**

College
Randell attended Vanderbilt University starting in 1930. At Vandarbilt University, Randell worked on the //Masueradar//. While at Vanderbilt he studied with Robert Warren and John Ransom. Randell graduated from Vandarbilt with a master's degree and a bachelor's degree. Randell early poetry was influenced by Ransom. Randell ended up following Ransom to Kenyon college were they both taught and wrote poems.

WWII
Randell married Mackie Langham down in Texas. He was technical sergant in the U.S. army during WWII. He first started teaching people how to navigate until the war ended. What he witnessed became an ispiration to write peoms about the war. Continueing his teaching career, Randell taught at Sarah Lawrence and wrote poems. Randell was given an award for his poems and books. On October 14, 1965, Randall Jarrell died in a car crash while having maniac disorder ||

Poetry links

 * * __ [|Death of the Ball Turret Gunner] __
 * __ [|90 North] __
 * __ [|A sick child] __
 * __ [|The Breath of Night] __ ||>  ||

Of "A sick child"
"A sick child" is a poem about a man who is stuck in his bed. He gets up to meet his ordinary life and his ordinary problems. His postman tells him what he needs to do that day but he refuses; this is the conflict in the poem. He tells the messenger he would rather be sick then answer his work. The messenger tells him there is more work and it only further angers the man in bed. Randell Jarrell implies that this man is living a life that he doesn't want to live. That is why he doesn't want to answer this postman. The speaker of this poem is the sick man in bed. He is in middle years, 25-35. The postman is this man's audience because he is the one that is trying to get him to work.

The setting of this poem is early in the morning in the bed at the man's house. There is no special occasion in this poem it is for this man a regular day. His tone is aggravated, tired, and bored. He is aggravated with the postman for trying to get him to do his work. He is also aggravated with all the work he has to do. He is tired and bored of his life and is ready to move on. The theme of the poem is the man is tired of his ordinary bland life and wants to do new things with it. The problem he has is he doesn't know how to do it.

The poem did achieve its purpose of telling what the man wanted to do with his life. This man represents Randell Jarrell in his middle years. He is tired of doing the same thing every day and wants to move on to crazier and bigger things. He must first find out what it is he really wants to do with his life. Once he does that it will be easier for him to move on from his life of paperwork.