The Many Faces of War

When a s previous(a)ier returns home from struggle, nearly soldiers believe they ar expect to act like slide fastener happened and to f either back into their old routine. Soldiers believe that they are not to talk about what they had to do or what they had to see tour at war. Instead, they keep all their feelings and traumas to themselves so that they protect the whiteness of the ones they love that have not experienced war. With the poem approach It, Yusef Komunyakaa uses imagery to convey the exsert lasting internal effectuate war has on a somebody.\nThere is a stamp against soldiers labeling them as tough guys. They are not allowed to become frantic publically. Soldiers are to keep it unitedly until they are alone earlier they show any emotion. In lines 1 by dint of 5, the cashier first describes their reflection on memorial and allows the endorser to signalize them as an Afri passel American. whence the cashier begins to shift and begins describing their in-p erson internal turmoil as they see their face secrecy inside the black granite. (Komunyakaa 2). The reader is able to tune into the tellers emotions as they are briefly fight with their grief. I said I wouldnt. Dammit. No tears. (Komunyakaa 4). The reader can clearly interpret that the narrator is losing their composure. However, in the line that follows, the narrator regains that composure by stating, Im stone. Im flesh. (Komunyakaa 5). The narrator knows that they must not show emotion and chop-chop regains their bearings.\nWar can in like manner affect a persons mind through time. Those who struggle with the experience of war can often have their mind teetering back and off from the past to the present wherever they are. A trigger, such(prenominal) as a car backfiring or helicopter passing, can displace a war veterinarys mind righteousness back to the battlefield. In lines 8 through 13, the narrator describes such triggers as depending on the precipitate to make a diffe rence. (Komunyakaa 12-...