“Facing It” is a very sincere‚ emotional poem; the speaker in this poem is an African American Vietnam veteran visiting the Vietnam memorial in Washington D.C. The speaker is an African American because he states this in the lines “My black face fades‚ hiding inside the black granite” (Komunyakaa 1-2). The speaker’s memories of the war are like undying passenger with him for the remainder of his life. The passenger has a solid grip on the speaker when he gazes at the wall of names at the Vietnam
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The Importance of Elements in a Poem Every poem is unique in its own way. Be it William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow” (926) of just 8 lines or Nigel Tomm’s “My Blah Story”‚ which is the world’s longest English poem‚ of 23‚161 lines‚ all of them have a special touch added to them. Poems are written in every mood; love‚ heart break‚ happiness or sadness. Though poems are known to be easily written‚ many factors are involved when creating a good poem. It cannot be just made
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The Reflections of War In the poem‚ “Facing It‚” Komunyakaa uses his personal experience while visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial after surviving the Vietnam War and the mental affect of the reality that death has left. In the poem the author uses imagery to illustrate to the reader the feelings he experiences while dealing with the loss of his fellow comrades. “I go down the 58‚022 names‚ half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke.”(14-16) While at the memorial he is reminded of
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Facing it I stood nervously in front of my eighth grade English class praying that nobody would laugh at the poem I was about to read aloud. My peers were used to reading Langston Hughes‚ Edgar Allen Poe‚ or Maya Angelou‚ and I did not want to disappoint them by trying something new. The assignment given to our class was for everybody to choose a poem‚ read it aloud‚ and explain why it relates to them. How was I going to explain to a class filled with 13 and 14-year-olds that a poem about
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persons are all features of Romantic poetry found in this poem. "Expostulation and Reply" is written in the first person and in simple language. The poem seems conversational in style‚ making it more appealing to the reader. Even though the story is argumentative in wording‚ the tone is not angry or even serious. It is rather relaxed. This is probably due to the fact that we should approach it with an open mind and without bias. This poem incorporates Wordsworth’s thought that nature was the ultimate
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Facing Mortality Brad Gillam ENG 125 October 10‚ 2011 In this paper I have been asked to compare and contrast literary works involving the topic of my choosing. For this paper I chose the topic of death. Death can be told in many different ways‚ and looked at the same. This paper is going to decide how you feel about death‚ is it a lonely long road that ends in sorrow‚ or a happy journey that ends at the heart of the soul? You decide as we take different literary works to determine which way
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much more than anyone thought possible. The movie is telling us something‚ something that we will treasure a lifetime. There are a lot of movies nowadays that will just leave us stunned and give us some laughters‚ but without lesson. Facing the giants is not like those movies. First‚ the title itself. The title is really encouraging that we have to face the giants. And what are these giants? Maybe to some it is fear‚ pain‚ peer pressure‚ family and all sorts of giants that make us
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Facing The Giants Summary Free Essays 1 - 20 - StudyMode.com www.studymode.com/.../facing-the-giants-summa... Isalin ang pahinang ito Free Essays on Facing The Giants Summary for students. Use our papers to ... Facing the Giants: “Facing the Giants” I. Introduction “Never give up.” “Never back ... Facing the Giants‚ movie - Just For Kids Magazine www.just4kidsmagazine.com/.../FacingGiants.htm... Isalin ang pahinang ito FACING THE GIANTS caught our attention last summer when it made national
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Facing Death Emalee Bush Many individuals hide from death or even try to destroy it. For Instance‚Emily from "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner‚ The Narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" By Edgar Allan Poe‚ and Peyton Farquhar from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" By Ambrose Bierce all deal with death in different ways. Emily is trying to ignore death‚ The Narrator is trying to destroy death‚ and Peyton is trying to escape death. Every characters mat hod to facing death is different. Eventually
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Name: Mary Joan E. Dimaala Course: Bs Tourism Management Schedule: Saturday‚ 12pm-1:00pm REFLECTION IN “FACING THE GIANTS” Facing the giants is a great and wonderful movie. When I first heard the title of the story‚ something comes into my mind. I think it is all about facing the struggle and hard problems that will encountered in our life. As I watched the movie‚ I found out is all about Shiloh Christian Academy football coach Grant Taylor (Alex Kendrick) always fail to win a high school football
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