Andrew Johnson's Poem Facing It

He struggles to internalize his emotions, telling himself he is stone, like the granite memorial, a strong and steady reminder of the past, but he fails as he realizes the difference between him and the memorial: he is a living human being. He shares the darkness, the blackness, with the granite memorial, yet he can feel the full impact of this connection whereas a granite memorial cannot itself feel the pain that it directly represents. The overall moral of the poems is fairly up front for the reader. It is that war is not how stories make it sound, it is not honorable and fun and glorious, it is gruesome, deadly, and changes the lives of many young men and women who still had a lot of life and innocence left in front of them, and now all they will have are the memories of death and their friends dying in front of them. As Komuyakaa face becomes clear it now serves as a direct reminder of the emotional impact of his surroundings upon him, through mirroring his own face and also by simultaneously illuminating his surroundings and his silhouetted existence within these surroundings, reminding him that he stands within the Vietnam Memorial. This effect is described within the (lines 8-13) His constant turning and moving from angle to angle also suggests emotion as he cannot view the

Everyday men and women die in the most brutal way possible away from their family either killed from gun shots or landmines and they do come back. But in caskets, as images like these emphasize the destruction of war and these snaps just show the side effects of humankind's worse anger being shown. In the Article “The Stranger in the Photo Is Me”, Donald M. Murray expresses how harsh it really was in the war and how it changed himself forever and not in a good way. Not to mention, that he describes the way he felt ready to go to war, maybe even excited, but he wishes that horror on no one “I would not wish for a child or grandchild of mine to undergo the blood test of war” as the sacrifice these men and women go through is undeniably tremendous

"Outside the house, a shadow moved, an autumn wind rose up and faded away. But there was something else in the silence that he heard. It was like a breath exhaled upon the window..." (48) Imagery is very important to authors and especially Ray Bradbury in in his novel, Fahrenheit 451. Ray uses imagery in the story to have us interpret and work for information. Through imagery not only does the reader enjoy the story, they now feel a part of the story to solve the puzzles the author left behind.

Writers used imagery as a way to show how graphic and disturbing war can be. In the poem (Doc. D) the author describes how he would be “ killing women or even watching women get killed”. This is used to show the violent and disturbing actions many people have to do while at war. Another author describes how he saw (Doc. B) someone “ yelling out, stumbling, and floundering like a man on fire”. This shows how on a daily basis many soldiers saw events that would mentally scar them. In Document D the author describes how he would have kill men and keep shooting them to make sure they were dead. This is used to show how graphic the life of war was. The use of imagery is an effective way to show how disturbing the war is.

O’Brien used imagery to illustrate the war in a sense to make you feel as if you were there with the soldiers. While staying short and simple, he was also very specific of the details. “Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing. He lay with his mouth open. The teeth were broken. There was a swollen black bruise under his left eye. The cheekbone was gone” [423] is a perfect example of how O’Brien used imagery. This passage makes you see in your mind what the soldiers seen through their eyes.

Andrew Johnson was born December 29, 1808 in a North Carolina cabin. Andrew's father died when he was a young boy, and his mother quickly remarried. His mother and her new husband forced fourteen-year-old Andrew and his older brother William to a local tailoring job. After working a number of years in the tailoring business, the boys ran away for several years, dodging rewards for their capture placed by their mother and stepfather. Andrew returned to his mother, and the entire family moved to Greeneville, Tennessee. (Elizabeth R. Varon, 2013)

Andrew Johnson      Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina, the youngest of two sons. His father, Jacob Johnson, was a porter who died in 1811 after saving a man from drowning. His mother, Mary McDonough Johnson supported the family by spinning and weaving cloth in their Raleigh cottage. At the age of 14, Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor.

Facing It is a poem about a person visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that causes reoccurring emotions of past pain that are inescapable. From reading just the first five lines, one quickly notices the personal attachment that the writer has towards the event because the way he describes it; one would think that he has some type of experience with being a soldier during the Vietnam War. For example, he creates a link between his skin color and the color of the memorial. Therefore, he thinks the sad events that surround the memorial have a direct impact to him, are related to his race, and his race symbolizes doom. Readers find out that the narrator is in fact African American by the starting line – “my black face fades, hiding inside the black granite” (Lines 1-2). To show the attachment he places on his skin color, the word “black” is repeated for emphasis, and is used to refer to his skin color and the color of the memorial. Therefore, the memorial is just not a structure erected to commemorate the victims, but something that he has personal attachment and involvement with.

Initially as the story progresses, imagery is a commonly used literary device used by O’Brien to draw the reader in to the story. For instance, in the text it states, “Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the village of Than Khe in mid april” (O’Brien 2). This was a sentence from an excerpt describing what each soldier was required to carry and what some soldiers carried for personal reasons. This quote emphasizes how the soldiers would carry anything they could to have an belief that they had some form of security, though ultimately this security was a false from the embrace of death. Another example of this is “Almost everyone humped photographs” (3). Photographs provide comfort to soldiers going through an extremely stressful scenario. However, photographs in this context are a symbol of memories, and desires. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’ pictures of Martha were his way of expressing his love for her.

I wanted to create an emotional drawing that would help people with a lower understanding of the Vietnam War to show them how soldiers felt when returning home. With doing this I focused on the line 'Back home you don't publicize the fact that you were in Vietnam’ of the entry. I had kept my final piece black and white thinking it would help set the theme of seriousness and gloomy. As well, I had not done the face of the man in the drawing with the reasoning of showing the impact of war of

The plethora of names belonging to the fallen soldiers on this panel is uncountable. Running the entire left side of the photograph, the vertical line of the picture's edge verbalizes this declaration of uncountable names. Marlow's sharp cut, halfway through the panel gives the viewer a feeling of eternity. This photographed panel could continue on for miles and the viewer would be unaware of its' end. Furthermore, this is stating that the loss America faced in Vietnam is too vast for anyone to comprehend. Alternatively, on the right side of the photograph the edge of the panel is visible. The sight of the panel's edge allows entire names to be visible. Marlow contrasts the never-ending names on the left, with a vertical line on the right. By allowing viewers to see the panel's edge, this line focuses on the individuality of each name. Thus, this eternal list is scaled showing that each of these individual names are human beings. This sobering recognition of the loss America faced, serves as a constant reminder of the atrocities man can commit against his fellow

Essentially Sharrow is asking people to not forget all those that have died. The second perspective is that the paintings reflect a balancing act on a personal level. This view comes from the fact that humans must balance out their emotions, actions, and beliefs throughout their lives. Each painting in the series depicts something that a person needs to rationalize and keep in check as to lose track of their lives. This particular painting could be a depiction of death or depression. Again, this is derived from the content of the painting; an undisclosed person on top of a mound of skulls. The person in the paint could be acting as mirror for the viewer, meaning the viewer is meant to place themselves in the painting. If the painting is meant to reflect death it calls upon the feelings of loss and reflection. When a person loses someone close to them the feeling of loss will be pervasive in their life. It is a feeling that one will not be able to shake off for a long time. On top of that feeling of loss, one will continue to reflect on the life of the deceased which will only intensify the feelings of loss and

Another tool in developing the effectiveness of the poem is the use of compelling figurative language in the poem helps to reveal the reality of war. In the first line, the metaphor, ?Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,?(1) shows us that the troops are so tired that they can be compared to old beggars. Also, the simile "coughing like hags"(2) helps to depict the soldiers? poor health and depressed state of mind. Owen makes us picture the soldiers as ill, disturbed and utterly exhausted Another great use of simile, ?His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,?(20) suggests that his face is probably covered with blood which is the color symbolizing the devil. A very powerful metaphor is the comparison of painful experiences of the troops to ??vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues.?(24) This metaphor emphasizes that the troops will never forget these horrific experiences. As you can see, Owen has used figurative language so effectively that the reader gets drawn into the poem.

For example, Owen conveys “ He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning” (line 16). This constructs an extremely horrific image in the reader’s mind that helps the reader better understand the horribleness of war by displaying a tragic event Owen experinced. Another representation of this is when the poet states “Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” (lines 22 & 23). This additionally recreates the horrors Owen went through as a soldier in their mind. Furthermore, the horrific imagery present in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen assists the poet in educating the readers that war should not be

The first and last identical lines are, “The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.” This repetition makes me believe that he did not know who the lady was, but he feels a haunting connection to her somehow. Pound recognizes a passion in the woman that is so strong, it is conveyed even from a two-dimensional image of her.   This must have meant that she moves Pound in a way he has experienced before. His desire to feel this emotion again is no less just because she is dead. By repeating the first line at the end of the poem, Pound drives home the strength of his feeling for the woman considering that the entire poem is only four lines in total. The title does not give much away about the poem except that it is about a picture. Nevertheless, it does tell that the picture means something to Pound because he titled it “The Picture”, not “A Picture” which would probably be about pictures in general. Ezra Pound reveals his emotional side in this poem and demonstrates his passion and perception of unspoken language.