“mother” functions as a metaphor representing a mother and her child, a sense of childlike innocence. The “wet fur” image is the inside of the aviator's flight jacket. Another image is that of a melancholic, innocent and frightened animal. The aviator hunched in the belly of the plane shows readers how scared and helpless he was in the confined sphere six miles high in freezing temperatures. Abortion comments on the waste of war. The imagery of birth and the womb that Jarrel uses places this theory of innocence in the reader's mind. Just as a child is innocent and unaware of the evils that befall, Jarrell's ideas are combined to paint a picture of violence, heightening the reader's perception of the horror of