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 lost his sense of peacefulness, and expresses the futility of violence and the aftermath of war in “Facing It.” The Vietnam war may be over but Komunyakaa is still prolonging a psychological war within himself. Which leaves me questioning, is he facing his inner demons are is he hiding from them?
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He has faced a tragedy as he witnessed his fellow partners were killed in the battle filed same as his.It was hard to accept, despite losing all the soldiers lives nothing came out good from Vietnam war.He was terrified and broken.
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