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Facing It
Title: Facing It
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 434 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Facing It
I really enjoyed Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem, “Facing It”. It is about a black Vietnam Veteran who is at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington D.C. He stands before the wall and his thoughts fade to the war and back again to the present. I really liked how the author’s word brought the image to life. I felt as though I could see the wall and the reflections in it.
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…showed last 75 words of 434 total…arm inside the wall.” It almost seems like he sees the wall as the war itself, something that takes arms and lives all by itself. The wall is an inanimate object, yet it also seems like a living, breathing entity. The poem is shows how the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial isn’t just a memorial to the dead, but also to those who are living, I guess that is why I liked it so much.
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