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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 ...
The Tale of Kieu was the inspiration for the 2007 movie Saigon Eclipse, which moved the storyline into a modern Vietnamese setting with a modern-day immigrant Kiều working in the massage parlor industry in San Francisco's Mission District to support her family back in Vietnam. Additionally, Burton Wolfe directed a musical adaptation which ...
The 2082-line (present version) work is one of the two most recognizable and influential epic poems in Vietnamese (the other being The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du). [2] Its reaffirmation of Vietnam's traditional moral virtues, at a time when Vietnamese society was facing the French invasion, had great popular appeal.
Vietnamese literature (Vietnamese: Văn học Việt Nam) is the literature, both oral and written, created largely by the Vietnamese. Early Vietnamese literature has been greatly influenced by Chinese literature.
Pages in category "Vietnamese poems" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
Nguyễn Du was born in a great wealthy family in 1765 in Bích Câu, Đông Kinh. [3] [4] [5] His father, Nguyễn Nghiễm, was born in Tiên Điền village, Nghi Xuân, Hà Tĩnh, Vietnam.
南 Nam 國 quốc 山 sơn 河 hà 南 Nam 帝 đế 居 cư, 南 國 山 河 南 帝 居 Nam quốc sơn hà Nam đế cư, The Southern Country's mountains and rivers, the Southern Emperor inhabits. 皇 Hoàng 天 thiên 已 dĩ 定 định 在 tại 天 thiên 書 thư. 皇 天 已 定 在 天 書 Hoàng thiên dĩ định tại thiên thư. The August Heaven hath willed it so in the ...