Losing Ones Identity Through HardshipsThe poetry involved in Yusef Komunyakaas Dien Cai Dau is about the hardships of the Vietnamese War. It involves the experiences of both black and white soldiers as well the Vietnamese people. The experiences that the soldiers had in wartime are expressed through the feelings of war. These elements convey the loss of individuality of the soldiers. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell‚ conveys the idea of lost identity through the sacrifice of
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millions of years of evolution. The choice in animals for the poems did not fall under the laws of natural selection‚ they were hand selected to represent the separate‚ yet connected underlying messages. Paul Muldoon‚ author of “Hedgehog”‚ and Yusef Komunyakaa‚ author of “Night of the Armadillo”‚ both declare society as a negative parasitic being. Both mammalian protagonists bear suits of armor that barely suppress the impending offensive physical/social forces‚ all the meanwhile representing the average
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Gilgamesh is open for both adaptation and interpretation by comparing the versions of this epic by Yusef Komunyakaa and by Stephen Mitchell. First the meanings of the words adaptation and interpretation will be given. According to Macmillan Dictionary adaptation means: “A film‚
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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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The Blue Machinery of Summer – Yusef Komunyakaa The central conflict is that he does not feel the same since he has come back from Vietnam. I would say there are two instances that he best describes this problem. "I still hadn’t told her I felt I’d left part of myself in her country." (88) Another moment was at the very end when he imagines the faces of the dead from Vietnam on his way to L.A. I think that the whole story builds up suspense by the way he dances around the problem and never talks
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“Facing it” by Yusef Komunyakaa and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen‚ are two powerful poems with the graphical life like images on the reality of war. It is apparent that the authors was a soldier who experienced some of the most gruesome images of World War I. In “Ducle et Decorum Est” Owen tells us about a personal experience in which he survived a chemical warfare attack. Although he survives‚ some of his fellow troops do not. As in “Facing It” Komunyakaa is also a soldier who has survived
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It is therefore only natural for some people to sometimes fantasize about the things they most desire. In literary works like “The Things They Carried‚” “The Glass Menagerie‚” and “Facing It‚” the authors Tim O’Brien‚ Tennessee Williams‚ and Yusef Komunyakaa respectively‚ publicized their characters quest to change their situations. In “The Things They Carried‚” the
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the final buzzer sounds. Basketball requires a lot of teamwork and that team is like your family. Working together like a family helps push every player to do their best and make each other proud. In the poem “Slam Dunk & Hook” the author Yusef Komunyakaa uses metaphors‚ allusions‚ and imagery to illustrate basketball which offers escape and triumph for the players. The metaphor “Muscles were a bright motor” is used to accentuate how strongly the basketball players muscles were functioning on
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because it shows how the soldier felt the need to be like them in war. Towards the end of this expect ‚ the soldier seems to gain the courage he was longing for from his eny of the other soldiers. The poem “Camouflage of the chimera “ by yusef komunyakaa is about a soldier’s preparation
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Haley Hornbeck Hung Pham Composition Two March 17‚ 2011 All or Nothing In Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Facing It” and Wislawa Szymborska’s “End and Beginning” the poet’s writing is based around the central subject of war. The central theme of the poems is the emotional impact that the war brings out. Both poems differ in persona‚ yet set the same tone of sadness through their poetic language and poetic form. Both poems address the after effects of war however “Facing It” is more personal‚ whereas “End
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