Facing It Questions and Answers
Facing It
In the poem "Facing It," why is it important that the speaker misunderstands what the woman is doing at the end of...
The speaker imagines the woman is erasing names because he himself is having trouble facing the reality of the war. The poem describes a Vietnam veteran who looks at the memorial and imagines the...
Facing It
Identify one specific quality of the speaker in "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa, then offer one or more quotes from...
In Yusef Komunyakaa's poem “Facing It," a quality the narrator demonstrates is, hauntingly, traumatization due to his experience in the Vietnam War. As he stands in front of the Vietnam Veterans...