Looking up the words "ball turret" does help me better understand the poem because I know more about what it is describing. Getting this background information makes this seem even more real and it makes me feel even more sympathy towards him. The line that states "six miles from earth" means being in the airplane really high in the sky. I did not get this before because I didn't know what the ball turret was.
It does also help to know Randall Jarrell's background information because we know that he was in the Army Air Corps. He had something to do with the war, but it may have been devastating to him to not be able to fly. He didn't have personal experience but maybe this is what he thought it would feel like.
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