Twentieth Century Literature, September 22nd, 1994
Poet Randall Jarrell depicts the loneliness of man in his poetry. The feelings he expresses can be traced back to his early childhood when he was deprived early of a father and left with a mother whom he did not particularly like. Thus, fairy tale themes about mothers who eat their children are also reflected in some of his work. Nevertheless, the poet would occasionally portray women in a sympathetic light which reflects a concession to the gentler aspect of his nature.
"There is one story and one story only," Randall Jarrell was fond of quoting, from Robert Graves, about those poets whose e...
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