The Many Faces of War

When a pass returns home from warf be, some soldiers gestate they are expected to prove for like nonhing happened and to crepuscule guts into their old routine. Soldiers trust that they are not to conference about what they had to do or what they had to appear while at war. Instead, they keep all their feelings and traumas to themselves so that they protect the innocence of the ones they hit the hay that have not undergo war. With the poem Facing It, Yusef Komunyakaa uses mental imagery to convey the last dour interior effects war has on a person.\n there is a stereotype against soldiers labeling them as tough guys. They are not allowed to become emotional publically. Soldiers are to keep it together until they are alone before they video display any emotion. In lines 1 by dint of 5, the storyteller first gear describes their reflection on memoir and allows the reader to identify them as an Afri squirt American. Then the teller begins to shift and begins descri bing their personal internal turmoil as they see their face hiding inside the black granite. (Komunyakaa 2). The reader is capable to tune into the narrators emotions as they are briefly struggling with their grief. I said I wouldnt. Dammit. No tears. (Komunyakaa 4). The reader can understandably interpret that the narrator is losing their equanimity. However, in the line that follows, the narrator regains that composure by stating, Im stone. Im flesh. (Komunyakaa 5). The narrator knows that they must not fork out emotion and quickly regains their bearings.\n war can also mend a persons head through time. Those who contend with the experience of war can often find their mind teetering back and forth from the quondam(prenominal) to the present wherever they are. A trigger, such as a car backfiring or whirlybird passing, can send a war veterans mind right back to the battlefield. In lines 8 through 13, the narrator describes such triggers as depending on the light to make a diff erence. (Komunyakaa 12-...