Akeem Barnes Professor Fairey Personal Criticism 5-12-13 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
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On the outside of Yusef Komunyakaa’s "Thanks" is a very hopeless type of story about a young man in the Vietnam War who recounts events in which could have been his last. He gives thanks to certain objects‚ as if they were the reason that he did not in fact get shot‚ or that he didn’t trip over a landmine. The thanks he is giving could be interrupted as thanks to God for these objects‚ or a downright statement of a lack of god in his life or this war. Komunyakaa is making a statement about the war
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The award winning poet‚ Yusef Komunyakaa not only took a tour of duty in Vietnam‚ he wrote many poems about his experience while in Vietnam. I will analyze Komunyakaa ’s poem‚ "Tu Do Street‚" from a historical perspective to attempt to understand some of the tribulations that an African American soldier would endure during a tour of duty in Vietnam. Yusef Komunyakaa was born on April 29‚ 1947‚ in Bogalusa‚ Louisiana. The Deep South was very segregated during Komunyakaa ’s childhood‚ and he reflects
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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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Yusef Mitchell jr is a very extravagant great young man. He makes very good grades in school he is very respectful to any and everyone no matter who it is. All of a sudden it was this one day that Yusef did something that was very breath taking. He got caught hanging with the wrong crowd and being at the wrong place at the wrong time. What he did could have possibly had a very big impact on his life. One day yusef and his brother did something very bad. Yusef had never
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“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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“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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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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