Question

What kind of imagery do both Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera" and Kinnell's part 1 of "Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond" have in common?

A. Images of nature
B. Images of peaceful villages
C. Images of soldiers
D. Images of helicopters

Answer 1

The answer is indeed letter A. images of nature.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are analyzing the images described in two poems concerning Vietnam and the war, "Camouflaging the Chimera", by Komunyakaa, and "Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond", by Kinnell. In both works, we are presented with a description of nature, as if to show how peaceful it is in contrast with the war taking place, or how men are capable of using it for their own bloody purposes.

In "Camouflaging the Chimera", soldiers are camouflaging themselves using everything nature has to offer - branches, mud, bamboos. The author describes what makes the forest alive: the breeze off the river, the rock apes, the crawling chameleons. In "Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond", the frogs in the pond are described in part 1, again contrasting with what men are doing. The old frogs have puffy eyes, the young ones aren't even fully developed yet, having only the "beginnings of necks." Both poems provide readers with a description of nature living side by side with destruction and death.

Answer 2

A. Images of nature

Step-by-step explanation:

In Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera" the narrator is describing what the soldiers did into the nature, he shows the scene like “We tied branches to our helmets. We painted our faces & rifles with mud from a riverbank,” on the other hand, Kinnell's part 1 of "Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond" include in his poem imagery of the moon, a frog pond and hills, he is also portraying the nature that surrounds the soldiers.