Word: komunyakaaã
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...symbol of man’s own warlike drive: “Horses carried men to reed boats. / Horses carried the Lion-hearted / ...Horses carried man to the quartering. / Horses carried men to the grasslands / of the Crow, Shawnee, & Apache.” But the horses also hint at Komunyakaa??s own experience: warhorse refers to one who is a veteran of many battles and struggles, a title that he can certainly claim as he himself faced fire in Vietnam...
While literary references ooze from Komunyakaa??s poems, they are surprisingly readable and unpretentious. Yet there is still a clear wall between the poet and the reader. As Komunyakaa once said, “Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It’s a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question...
...unlike Komunyakaa, who has spent time in Vietnam. Unlike Komunyakaa, however, he never moved beyond working at his father’s bar, and the whole poem resembles the unfocused rant of a slightly destabilized veteran. Here, the urgency that was muted throughout the other sections becomes more apparent. Komunyakaa??s alter ego is angry and full of guilt but has no idea how to express it. He stands in for Komunyakaa??s own ambivalence about war, his feeling of never being able to fully express his emotions regarding it. “Iraq? Well...
While each of the three sections has its own distinctive tone, Komunyakaa??s voice is discernible behind them all. He is the warhorse, the man who has ridden into battle and can’t quite seem to return home even all these years later. He knows he’ll never be able to explain the entirety of his experience, so he doesn’t even try. Instead, he limits his focus to one moment, one person, one tool of war. In the process, he manages to say something greater. By looking at individual causes...
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