TITLE:
The Image of Talented Scholar, Beauty and Love in Vietnamese Nom Narrative Poetry
AUTHORS:
Guojian Xun, Pham Quynh Son
KEYWORDS:
Nom Narrative Poetry, Talented Scholar, Beauty, Love
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.5,
May
23,
2017
ABSTRACT: The
emergence and prevalence of Nom narrative poetry associated with the decline of
feudalism in Vietnam. The feudal system began to weaken since the 16th century and the 18th century became severe, and mid-19th century entered the crisis
period. Social contradictions, class contradictions brought huge differentiation
inside the ruling class which had brought a large part of writers, poets closer
to people. Overcoming class ideology, those intellectuals had represented the
aspirations of the times, the voice of the people with all their hearts.
Humanism literature is the result of that social struggle and ideological
struggle process. Along with the development of Nom letter and the
sin-eight-word, the Nom first poems were formed and developed that way. Nom
narrative poetry about “talented scholar and beauty” told the story of love
between a man and a woman. They were not only outstanding in their appearance
but also faithful in love. To protect their love, they had to overcome the
resistance of feudal rites, the harm of those mean people, and they even had to
look for the death to keep a vow with their lovers. All those things had made
up the beauty of Nom narrative poetry. That also explains why Nom narrative
poetry was soon welcomed socially and had such huge influence on Vietnamese’s
life. However, in field of literature
research, there has not been a unified notion of Nom narrative poetry about talented
scholar and beauty. Therefore a viewpoint about the notion of Nom narrative
poetry will be discussed. Moreover the writer also analyzes the talented
scholars, the beauties and their love. As a result, the value of this type
of poetry in Vietnam national literature will be affirmed.