Turner and Komunyakaa

Outside from both of these poems being about war and being somehow connected to war, these poets have different styles of writing about the war in poetry. I feel like Brian Turner is more "in your face" with the way he explains war. For example, "he hasn't the strength to move: shrapnel has torn into his ribcage and he will bleed to death in ten minutes". His poetry and imagery is really intense in my opinion compared to Yusef Komunyakaa's poems. Komunyakaa's poems are more laid back and use a lot of comparisons instead of just flat out saying what happened. For example, "A white vet's image floats closer to me, then his pale eyes look through mine. I'm a window." They are similar in what they talk about and what they encountered in war, it's just the way they explain it in poetry that is different. They are both in a time of war and they are both in a foreign land just trying to get by and stay alive. The difference in writing techniques could be because they were in different wars and these wars were in two different time periods, but we can never be sure. I'm no expert on war, but I know the wars now are way different from wars in the time period of the Vietnam war. Technology has obviously grown drastically since the Vietnam War and I've always heard that Americans seem to have always been more superior because of the access to better technology than native people. Which makes me wonder if we've ever fought a fair fight? But then again, war isn't always fair and people get hurt and killed for unknown reasons. War is probably something I will never understand, but this class has helped me a lot in understanding certain aspects of the war that I was unaware of before.