Analysis Of Facing It By Yusef Komunyakaa And Dulce Et...

â€Å"Facing it† by Yusef Komunyakaa and â€Å"Dulce et Decorum Est† by Wilfred Owen, are 2 great poems written in the perspective of soldiers who experienced disturbance of war. In â€Å"Dulce et Decorum Est† Owen talks about his experience in World War 1, taking the reader inside the actual event and giving them the insight on his feelings watching his fellow troops die. In â€Å"Facing it†, Komunyakaa also discusses his feeling towards his fellow troops who didn’t survive the attack but he also sheds light on his racial identity. Komunyakaa talks more of his feeling about the Vietnam War while visiting a memorial as oppose to describing the actual event. In Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa and Wilfred Owen s â€Å"Dulce et Decorum Est, the poets use various literary techniques to express their traumatic experiences of war. Without these literary devices, the poems would not be as powerful and effective in expressing how war mentally damaged them. T he first literary technique they use is symbolism. Standing in front of the Vietnam memorial, Yuself Komunyaka looked back at a terrorizing time in his life. Looking down the list of etched names on the black granite wall Komunyaka reflect on his experience and confronts his conflicting feelings about war. As he stares at the wall he begins to have flash back of the war. The rushing of his flash back symbolizes the rush in war, everything happing so fast (Schatzie2013). Bitterly, Owen talks about how nothing is glorious and honorable about death,