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  Identify one specific quality of the speaker in "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa, then offer one or more quotes from the poem to support your point.
  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...

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  In the poem "Facing It," why is it important that the speaker misunderstands what the woman is doing at the end of the poem?
  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...

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