In both poems, “Facing It” by Yusef Komuhykaa and “My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, there are two men looking back on hardships that they have made it through in their life. Although both hardships are completely different, the men in both poems had to work through them and in the long run their hardships made them stronger men. Through the grieving of two grown me in both poems, it is apparent how hard it is to forget hardships in your past because they will always cause emotional pain.
The speakers in both poems reveal their hardships from their past. The speaker in “Facing It” is a Veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a man who is emotional about the Memorial because of what it represents and how he is connected with it. He was in the war and knew people on the memorial so that’s why he got emotional about it. “I said I wouldn’t, Damnit: No tears” (Komuhykaa 713). The speaker in “My Papa’s Waltz” is a man reminiscing about his youth when he was......

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Title: Making Sense Of Hardships
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