Yusef Komunyakaa is a Black American poet who currently teaches at New York University. Yusef rose from being the son of a carpenter to becoming one of the most extraordinary poets writing today. In 1947‚ the eldest of five children James William Brown was born in a small town of Bogalusa‚ Louisiana. He would later grow up and reclaim the name Komunyakaa his grandfather had once lost as a stowaway in a ship from Trinidad. He was raised during the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. He served
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Just like every other war‚ the Vietnam War was a tragic age where blood was spilled and sorrow filled the hearts of people from both sides of the battlefield. Yusef Komunyakaa was one of the many who mourned over lost loves and friends. His poem describes the heartache he encounters as he visits the memorial for all the lives that were lost. Post-traumatic memories flood him all at once and he envisions some of the slain veterans and citizens reflecting in the wall of names. He is bitter at the
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veteran‚ Yusef Komunyakaa‚ who visited the Vietnam War Memorial fifteen years after his service. Although this poem focuses specifically on Komunyakaa’s trauma from war‚ it can resonate with anyone who has experienced a traumatic event. In “Facing It”‚ Yusef Komunyakaa describes his encounter with facing the past to illustrate the physical and emotional effects of trauma. The author of this poem‚ Yusef Komunyakaa‚ contributed to this interview‚ explaining
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Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It” describes a Vietnam War veteran’s painful experience of visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington‚ D.C. In his poem I couldn’t help but be impressed by its vivid imagery. Reading the lines‚ Komunyakaa makes it so easy to envision what he describes. It makes me feel like I’m there. Through the use of vivid imagery‚ Yusef Komunyakaa shows the veterans’ response to the Vietnam War memorial by using both literal and figurative illustrations. Literally
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Facing It Yusef Komunyakaa‚ Pulitzer Prize winning poet grew up in Bogalusa Louisiana. Yusef had an interesting childhood including an abusive father‚ a love for jazz music‚ and a side of patriotism. He joined the army in 1965 during the heart of the Vietnam War. This is where Yusef got a lot of inspiration to start to write his poetry. War brought him a lot of personal experiences that he later turned into award winning poetry. ‘Facing it” is a poem expressing the struggle of life and death also
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of Imagery and Figurative Language in “Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa In his poem‚ “Facing It”‚ Yusef Komunyakaa describes his ambivalent emotions towards the Vietnam War of which he was a veteran. Reflecting on his experiences‚ Yusef expresses his conflicting feelings about the Vietnam War and his feelings about how racism has played a part in America’s history. By using visual imagery and metaphoric language throughout the poem‚ Yusef is able to reflect the sad and confused emotions he felt
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Kanaan Morley Professor Betty Proctor ENGL 1302 6 February 2011 The Mythology Fruit The poem “Blackberries” written by Yusef Komunyakaa in 1992‚ it had plenty of different meanings and opened your mind to a new way of thinking. In the poem the child is only ten and they are picking blackberries from the tree. While picking blackberries the child is in another world‚ eating and gathering blackberries to sell. When standing on the road to sell the berries a car comes by‚ the child soon then snaps
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Derrick Meyenburg Professor Linda Cashman ENC1102 Sec. 45 March 22‚ 2014 Yusef Komunyakaa’s Facing It. Returning Vietnam veterans had an especially hard time reconnecting to the world upon their return home. Both their mental and physical stresses‚ compounded by the fact that there were a large number of people who chose to hate and beguile these men‚ caused them to be clinically depressed or even in some cases drove them to insanity. In Komunyakaa’s “Facing It”‚ we get an in depth look at
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Facing It Outline Jackson G In the poem “Facing It”‚ the author Yusef Komunyakaa makes use of imagery‚ symbolism‚ and allusion to demonstrate the difficulty that veterans have dealing with the lingering emotional pain caused by war and how this causes them to have trouble facing reality. In the beginning of the poem‚ the author uses imagery coupled with allusion and symbolism to illustrate how the speaker is conflicted by and reflecting on the memory of the war. “My black face fades‚ hiding
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