Comparing Red Badge Of Courage And Camouflaging The Chimera

Throughout the two writings, The Red Badge of Courage and “Camouflaging the Chimera”, you learn about each writer and their “war” background. Although Yusef Komunyakaa was in the war, Stephen Crane was not. In Stephen Crane’s writing, The Red Badge of Courage, he talks about a youth named Henry Fleming and what he goes through throughout his life. While(✔) in Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Camouflaging the Chimera”, he talks about a group of soldiers sitting in the terrain, hiding from their enemies and waiting for the ambush. Although(✔) they both use historical content to get their point across there are a few differences that set the two writing apart. The themes of the two writings are different, Crane’s theme for his writing would be that soldiers are incapable of true heroism. Komunyakaa’s of his poem would be that the soldiers left a lot behind and waited all day in hiding. Stephen Crane’s excerpt The Red Badge of Courage and Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Camouflaging the Chimera” have many similarities and differences. …show more content…
An example of this would be in lines 15-17, “The separation was as great to him as if they had marched with weapons of flames and banners of sunlight. He could never be like them. He could have wept in his longings.” In Komunyakaa’s poem, “Camouflaging the Chimera”, the speaker of the poem is ‘we’ as a group of soldiers, but does not focus on one individual. For instance, in lines 18-24, when the speaker was talking about them hiding all day, “...crawled our spines, changing from day to night: green to gold, gold to black. But we waited till the moon touched metal, till something almost broke inside us. VC struggled with the hillside, like black