The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell (Poem #4)

I was confused by this poem; I did not know what the narrator was talking about. The narrator is talking about his/her fur, but it would not make sense since they are human. I think maybe the narrator was using personification, and pretending to be in an animal’s perspective. It’s like an animal thats wished his life was different, like a dream as it says in the poem, “Loosed from its dream of life,” the animal was loosened from his/her dream of life. It seems like the animal woke up in a nightmare, maybe the last place he’d ever want to be. A turret is a tower-like place, so when he/she died, he was just washed out of the tower, with a hose implying that the narrator was unimportant to anyone around. When the narrator died, it did not seem like anyone mourned him/her, but that it was easy to get rid of him/her. Obviously the narrator felt upset about his death being nothing to others. I felt like the theme was the fact that we are born into life, in a harsh or easy environment, and we leave noticed, or unnoticed. I liked the poem’s implicitness, and how  it was simple and short. Alot is implied or implicitly said through just five lines, which is a very interesting way to write a poem. Since it is short, we as the readers must read it over and over again to really attempt to understand it and what it is trying to say.