On a factual perspective, in the poet Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem, “Facing It,” portrays the writer visiting the two-acre Vietnam Veterans Memorial monument located in Washington, District of Columbia. In this memorial, it honors the U.S. service members of the United States armed forces who had fought and died in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial contains a reflective black granite monument that is engraved with smoky whitish-greyish letters of the names of the fallen Vietnam Veterans. However, on a more metrical and imaginative perspective, these combinations of words were Komunyakaa’s emotional response that surrounded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It distributes an immense amount of psychological pain and warfare trauma that the writer is going through. Yusef Komunyakaa was a U.S. Army Specialist for the military paper, also known as the Southern Cross, which explains why he shares his poetic side through, “Facing It.” In his piece of literature, he expresses that he has