Summary Of Im Flesh By Yusef Komunyakaa

This poem by author Yusef Komunyakaa was a touching piece it had a lot of emotions in it. When I was reading the poem many images popped up in my head this image up at top happens to be one of them. I feel like this particular image represented the poem the best because author Yusef Komunyakaa describes himself at the wall with many of emotions. It says, “ My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn’t dammit: no tears. I’m stone. I’m flesh”(157). To Yusef, this wall is more than a wall. To him, it represented people that sacrificed their lives for us. And this image shows all of what Yusef was feeling.

Yusef talked a lot about his past and the war it says, “ I touch the name Andrew Johnson; I see the booby trap’s