Starry Night poem

The stars and moon shine so bright
How could this be such a regular night?

And the town seems so very quiet
With absolutely no type of riot

Why does this place seem so desserted?
Maybe someone should be alerted

Or perhaps they’d find this normal
And say they live their life formal

Me, myself wouldn’t be able to live here
Not even consider a place near

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girl before a mirror peom

Everyone is staring at her
She’s only staring at herself

Everyone around her is in the glow of joy
She is in the mist of dispair

Everyone together pears to the future
She alone views back to her past

Everyone is getting ready to go see her wedding
She’s preparing herself to be summoned to her funeral

Everyone sees her joy
She knows her pain

Everyone sees that she’s full of life
She sees only her empty soul in the mirror starring back at her

It knows that everyone cannot see her

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Facing it by Yusef Komunyakaa

this poem is about a man who was probably part of the vietnam war and comes back now to see what is still going on. or maybe he is dreaming about it. he going down the list to see if he finds his name but unexpectedly he saw his name in letters of smoke. the names on the woman’s blouse which eventually stayed on the wall after she left probably stands for names that are yet to be called out.

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“Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa

Follow this link for a copy of the poem and audio of the poet reading it.  Or listen here to a different reading of the same poem.

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Facing it

i think this poem is about a man who died in a war and he comes back in spirit as the memorial for all the people who died in the war was goin on. he noticed that his name was on the wall along with others who had died and it is as if he is in denial  when he saw his name.

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Because i could not stop for death

i think this poem is about someone who finally realize that death is catching up to them. death took them pass different places that they enjoyed or places they never been. they final realize that they are dead.

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“Because I Could Not Stop For Death”

This poem is kind of confusing, but I think it’s about the speakers life starting from childhood, midlife, and then death. The speaker wanted death to come to her because she says “He kindly stopped for me”.

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“Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa

This poem is about how Yusef attended the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. I know it’s about himself because he starts the poem with “My”. As he saw the list of the people who died during the war, he started to get flash backs of what had occured in the Vietnam War. Visiting the memorial was very hard for him to deal with because I think he feels like he should have been on that list of fallen soldiers. You can think that because he says in the poem that he was half-expecting to find his own name on the list.

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Reading Response to “Because I could not stop for Death”

the first stanza of this poem is saying that we are so busy with our lives that we won’t have time to  stop for death, death would stop for us and the carriage is our coffin. In the 5th stanza she compares her grave a house which shows that she is comfortable with death.  She wore a gossamer gown to marry death. Overall this was a good poem to read.

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Response to “Facing It” by Komunyakaa

This poem is about a soldier’s experience in the Vietnam war. He is explaining how things could go wrong depending on the decisions made in war. “My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn’t, dammit: No tears.”  I think he is at a memorial since memorials usually have black granite walls with names of the dead and he is trying not cry while remembering how the war was.

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