THOUGHTS OF HANOI

STRUCTURE

• Free verse and has stanzas- 7 long poem
• Many enjambments
• Puncuation, white space, and arrangement of words
• Meter
• Section of rhyme scheme or consance

Imagery
"The stainless blue sky, jubilant voices of children, struggling through the alphabet..."

Figurative Language
"...the way back sliced by a frontier of hatred."

Symbol
"The night is deep and chill...Pitchblack, it thickens after each lighting flash." This symbolizes his current situation and how rough it is.

Summary
This story takes place in Vietnam. During the poem, the war is happening. There are two brothers, and one brother remembers how content he was before the war. During the war he is miserable. He will be fighting on the March-North Army. His brother is fighting on the other side. He does not want hatred between them, and he wants the relationship they had.

Related songs: Hey There Delilah, and American Pie

Nguyen Thi Vinh. "Thoughts of Hanoi." Trans. Nguyen Ngoc Bich. Reading the World: Contemporary Literature From Around the Globe. Ed. Carol Francis. Logan, IA: Perfection Learning, 2012. eBook.

Made by:
Mary Lynn