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Yusef komunyakaa's poem "Facing It"

Introduction

Yusef Komunyakaa born on 29. April 1947 in Bogalusa, Louis IANA, a US-American writer is currently at that University of New York shows. Grant is a member with that southern writers and owners of major literary awards, as of Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (both 1994) and Award of the Ruth Lilly Poetry (2001). In his work addresses issues, those of the sense of life on the problem of rural life in the southern states before the civil rights movement to their own experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam War are enough.

Yosef Komunyakaa tries to explain his experience of Vietnam war, which he had experienced as a soldier. Vietnam War which took place between 1954 and 1975 , is the second stage and is the most intense phase

the war in Indochina (1945 - 1979). This is a war between two sides, one side of the Republic of Vietnam in South Vietnam with the U.S. and some allies such as Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines direct battle, on one hand the Democratic Republic of Vietnam northern Vietnam Workers' Party of Vietnam (the name of the Communist Party of Viet Nam February 11, 1951 and before December 20, 1976) led the National Liberation Front of South Viet in South Vietnam, with the support of weapons of socialists (communists), especially the Soviet Union and China. This battle is still known as "Vietnam War", but the fighting spread throughout Indochina, appealing to the next battle is both Laos and Cambodia neighboring countries at different levels. Therefore, the war is also known as the First Indochina War 2 (Liberty, 1992,pp. 176-179).

Yusef Komunyakaa poem, "Facing It" describes the painful experience is a veteran of Vietnam War to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC Based on interviews and biographical data, we can assume that the speaker of the poem is itself Komunyakaa . Komunyakaa served in Vietnam from 1965 to 1967, and his memories of those years haunt him when visiting the memorial, which makes him question his own identity as a black, Vietnam veteran and the type of surviving has become (Ethnic News Watch, 2010, proquest.com).

Discussion

Yusef Komunyakaa in "Facing It" is the composition about the author's appointment to the Monument to Vietnam Veterans and their claimed adventures in the Vietnam War. The a lot of acclaimed of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, which is the focal point of "The Front". The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bank is amid in Washington DC The bank with the names of added than 58,000 men and women who accept absent their lives or who abide missing, due to the war in Vietnam. "Facing it" presents able affections a adept of the Vietnam War if he sees added than 58,000 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bank and bethink their accomplished experiences.

The composition is an author's biking adviser to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. The columnist describes what he sees, ...