Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Same effects across time
Yusef Komenyaka and Brian Turner both have very similar topics in which they write about. Both poets write of an eeriness. There is a paranoia, a feeling that death could happen at any moment and that the enemy be anywhere. A difference would be the setting and time that the poets write about. Komenyaka wrote about Vietnam which was in jungle setting and Turner wrote about Iraq which was a more recent war in a very different setting. Martin Hugh's writing is much more ambiguous where as both Komenyaka and Turner are a bit more direct in the story that they are writing. Hugh leaves much to the imagination. Hugh and turner are both writers of a more recent war.
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I find Hugh and Turner's stories to be more unsettling, just becasue I know people who are serving and have served in that war. The Vietnam War seems to be more of a fairytale than an event that actually happened like the war in Iraq and Iran going on now.
ReplyDeletePersonally I don't find Martin Hugh to be that ambiguous but I must admit the ending of "Way of Looking at an IED" was a detestable cliff hanger.
ReplyDeleteI feel that The Vietnam was told in some sort of a romanticized way. The poetry that surrounded that war was told in a way that made it seem beautiful, almost. These modern authors are more direct with what happens and do not try and create this "pretty" picture of war.
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