In “The Naming of parts” by Henry Reed is narrated by two speakers, one who is the drill instructor and the other is the military trainee. The drill instructor iterates mostly all of the lines having to do with the rifle and its parts. The trainee speaks of nature and the Japanese garden. These two speakers differ in tone since one is concerned with the mechanisms of the rifle as well as warfare whereas the trainee is connected with nature and can see the natural beauty that life has to offer. First off, the two speakers in this poem are the drill instructor who reviews with the trainees the parts and functions of their rifles and the second voice is that of one of the trainees who finds a connection with nature. The first voice, that of the
