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Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include Lục bát, Song thất lục bát, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines" (a type of quatrain), and "five ...
Việt Nam văn minh sử cương, Lê Văn Siêu, Nhà xuất bản Thanh Niên 2004 Durand, Maurice M. ; Nguyen Tran Huan (1985) [1969], An Introduction to Vietnamese Literature , Translated by D. M. Hawke, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-05852-7
Hàn Mặc Tử's early poems—praised by Phan Bội Châu—are famous for their purity of diction and form, and show him to be a fluent Classicist with a strong interest in realistic subjects. Subsequently, his poetry showed the influence of French Symbolism , and after he fell sick, became increasingly violent and despondent.
Tố Hữu, whose real name is Nguyễn Kim Thành, was born 4 October 1920 in Hoi An, Quang Nam province, as the youngest son of the family.At the age of 9, he and his father returned home and lived in Phu Lai village, now in Quang Tho commune, Quang Dien district, Thua Thien province.
Some of her poems were collected and translated into English in John Balaban's Spring Essence (Copper Canyon Press, 2000, ISBN 1 55659 148 9). An important Vietnamese poet and her contemporary is Nguyễn Du , who similarly wrote poetry in demotic Vietnamese, and so helped to found a national literature.
Việt Nam vong quốc sử (越南亡國史), by Phan Bội Châu in Japan in 1905; Some of these Literary Chinese texts are still taught in school. For example, the poem Nam quốc sơn hà (南國山河) by Lý Thường Kiệt, is in the textbook used by schools in Vietnam. [3] The texts are generally and commonly is divided into three ...
Merlin is a partly lost French epic poem written by Robert de Boron in Old French and dating from either the end of the 12th [2] or beginning of the 13th century. [3] The author reworked Geoffrey of Monmouth's material on the legendary Merlin, emphasising Merlin's power to prophesy and linking him to the Holy Grail. [4]
The Merlion (/ ˈ m ɜːr ˌ l aɪ ə n /) is the official mascot of Singapore.It is depicted as a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.Being of prominent symbolic nature to Singapore and Singaporeans in general, it is widely used to represent both the city state and its people in sports teams, advertising, branding, tourism and as a national personification.