Which element is used in both “Ambush” and “Facing It” to create tension and conflict?

Both poems create tension through narrators who are caught between conflicting thoughts and feelings. In “Ambush,” the speaker struggles with whether he would shoot the young soldier and with the memory of the man he killed. In “Facing It,” the speaker’s reactions shift between personal grief and the public meaning of the memorial. This makes “the conflicted thoughts of the narrators” the shared element.

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