Read the following accounts of two different Vietnam veterans’ first visit to the Wall, the Memorial on which the names of all those killed in the Vietnam War are inscribed. “First Visit to the ‘Wall’ . . .” by Rex Rutkowski is a prose account; “Facing It” by Yusef Komunyaka is a poem. Discuss the effect that genre has on the two authors’ descriptions; what does the poetic version do that the prose version does not? Use evidence from both accounts in support of your thesis.
The essay should be approximately 500-600 words and should have a clear beginning, middle and end.
