1. General understanding of the excerpt Kieu at Ngung Bich tower (Nguyen Du)
Author Nguyen Du
Nguyen Du (1765 - 1820) real name is To Nhu, pen name is Thanh Hien.
Nguyen Du's life went through many ups and downs, but it was those circumstances that gave him a rich life and a profound soul.
Creative career
His writing career is highly appreciated in both Chinese and Nom characters.
Deep humanitarian spirit.
Content and artistic values reach their peak.
Location of excerpt
The excerpt is in the second part: Family turmoil and wandering. After being deceived, humiliated and scolded by Ma Giam Sinh, Kieu refused to accept the life of a brothel. In pain and resentment, she intended to commit suicide. Tu Ba, afraid of losing her capital, chose her words carefully to persuade her to live separately in Ngung Bich tower with the promise that when she recovered, she would marry her to a decent man, but in reality, she was keeping her under house arrest to carry out a new, more despicable and brutal plot.
Layout: 3 parts
| Part 1 (first 6 verses): Kieu's lonely situation | In front of the Ngung Bich spring lock tower The distant mountains and the near moon are together The four sides are vast and far-reaching. Golden sand on this dune, pink dust on that mile Embarrassed by morning clouds and late night lights Half love half scene like dividing heart |
| Part 2 (next 8 verses): Kieu's nostalgia | Thinking of the person under the moon with a bronze cup The news of the frost has been there all day, waiting for tomorrow. Alone in the corner of the sky When will the lipstick fade away? Pity the person leaning against the door tomorrow Who is fanning the heat and cooling the cold now? Lai yard is away from the sun and rain Sometimes the root is big enough for a person to hug. |
| Part 3 (remaining verses): Thuy Kieu's mood | Sad looking at the sea door in the afternoon Whose boat is that sail is faintly visible in the distance? Sad to see the new falling water Flowers drifting aimlessly, not knowing where to go Sad to see the grass sad The sky and the ground are blue. Sad to see the wind blowing on the surface of the river The sound of waves roaring around the chair |
Narrator's words, character's mood and personality traits.
- In the excerpt, the narration is expressed through Thuy Kieu's emotions and thoughts, and at the same time reflects the author's point of view.
- Thuy Kieu's mood:
+ Deep sadness and compassion for myself when I was imprisoned in Ngung Bich tower, a lonely place in the middle of immense nature.
+ The feeling of suffering when not being able to see relatives and Kim Trong again, along with the shame of not being able to keep honor and fulfill the promise to his lover.
+ Fear and insecurity about the uncertain future, full of difficulties and challenges.
- Thuy Kieu's personality traits:
+ Thuy Kieu is a sentimental person, always puts love first and cares about the people around her.
+ She has a sensitive heart, often feels sad and is well aware of her situation.
+ Although worried about the future, Thuy Kieu still accepted the fate she had to face.
Content value
The excerpt realistically describes Thuy Kieu's lonely, sad, pitiful situation, her longing for her loved ones, and her loyal, filial, and altruistic heart when she was imprisoned in Ngung Bich tower.
Artistic value
The excerpt is successful in the art of describing the inner feelings with the writing style of describing the scene to imply the feelings, which is considered the most unique in the Tale of Kieu.
2. General outline for analyzing the work The Tale of Kieu (Nguyen Du)
A. Introduction
Introducing some features of author Nguyen Du: great national poet, world cultural celebrity, an excellent writer of literature.
The Tale of Kieu is a work considered the soul of the nation; the excerpt "Kieu in the Ngung Bich Tower" is taken from the Tale of Kieu, through the excerpt the poet was extremely delicate and profound in expressing Thuy Kieu's mood through the scenery.
B. Body
1. Analysis of the first 6 verses: Thuy Kieu's lonely and pitiful situation
a. The first 4 verses: a picture of the situation and space where Thuy Kieu lives.
The natural scenery described is the scene in front of Ngung Bich tower from a bird's eye view, from Kieu's state of mind.
“Locking spring”: locking youth, here, people no longer look forward to youth.
“Far mountains and near moon” facing each other: creating a vast space, where Kieu does not have any relatives.
The author uses the compound word "four sides" next to the reduplicated word "vast" to evoke a vast space without a single person.
The scenery has lines and colors but is not beautiful, and evokes a feeling of loneliness and overwhelm.
⇒ Here the author uses the technique of describing the scene to imply the feeling very successfully.
b. The following two verses: Kieu's love.
The reduplicated word “bè bang” describes Kieu’s shame and humiliation. In her mind, the events that had just happened were still vivid: being humiliated by Ma Giam Sinh, being forced to work as a prostitute, and now being imprisoned here.
The idiom "early clouds, late lights": refers to a closed cycle of time, Kieu being alone here highlights her loneliness.
Comparison "Half love, half scene, like dividing the heart": Kieu's heart seems to be divided into two, half for scene, half for love.
⇒ The first six verses are constructed using the writing style of describing the scene to imply feelings, describing the desolate and lonely scene to clearly depict Kieu's lonely mood.
2. Analysis of the next 8 verses: Kieu's longing for her lover and parents
a. Missing a lover (first 4 sentences).
"The person under the bronze cup moon": refers to Kim and his vow of engagement.
The verb "think": Kieu recalls beautiful memories with Kim Trong.
The two verbs "to look and wait" are separated and accompanied by the nouns indicating time "today, tomorrow": Thuy Kieu worries that Kim also misses Kieu dearly.
Variant idiom "in the corner of the sky and sea": evokes a distant, isolated space in a foreign land.
The metaphor "red lipstick" combined with the rhetorical question "when can it be washed away?" creates two understandings: first, Kieu's heart can never forget Kim, and second, Kieu's humiliated body can never be washed away.
⇒ Kieu's loyalty to her lover.
b. Missing parents (next 4 sentences)
Kieu misses her parents:
The verb "xột" combined with the interrogative sentence: shows her pain when remembering her parents.
“Sun and rain”: a metaphor for time in Kieu's mind when away from her family
The idiom “fanning hot, warming cold”: highlights Kieu's anxiety, who will fan her parents to sleep when it's hot, who will keep them warm when it's cold
⇒ In such difficult circumstances, Kieu still takes care of her parents ⇒ a filial child
3. Analysis of the last 8 verses: Kieu's sad mood and premonition of a stormy future
a. First 2 sentences: The picture of the sea gate at sunset.
“Immense sea gate in the evening”: In the midst of the vast space, Kieu felt homesick, a deep sadness welled up.
The image of the "boat" evokes loneliness, Kieu misses her family, not knowing when she will be able to return.
⇒ Looking at the lonely sail drifting among the waves, Kieu thought about her own fate being pushed by life.
b. Next 2 sentences: Flowers floating on the water.
“Sad looking”: evokes a tone of immense sadness, the sadness multiplies when she sees the flower petals drifting aimlessly.
The word "drift": indicates movement but in a passive position, the flower petals drifting, being buffeted by the waves, just like Kieu's fate.
c. Next 2 sentences: The countryside scene is gloomy.
The word "sad" is personified to indicate the color of grass ⇒ nature is tinged with mood ⇒ the writing style describes the scene and implies the feeling.
The pale, withered green of the landscape is a metaphor for Kieu's hopeless, bleak future.
⇒ Kieu is desperate and disoriented, this is both Thuy Kieu's mood and her situation.
d. Last 2 sentences: Stormy and windy scene and premonition of the future.
A fierce image appears: "the wind sweeps away the floating face": a metaphor for the storms of life that are surrounding and sweeping Kieu, the disasters that are about to befall her life.
Personification of "crying waves": evokes the image of Kieu struggling amidst the endlessness boiling inside and around her.
“The sound of waves rumbling around the chair”: In Kieu's heart was the sound of waves of sadness and fear, a premonition that the storm seemed to be approaching very close to Kieu.
⇒ The poem expresses Thuy Kieu's premonition about her life full of hardships and storms.
C. Conclusion
Affirming the artistic values that make the excerpt successful: traditional six-eight verse form, the art of describing scenes and emotions in a subtle way, combining familiar rhetorical devices, the repetition of the phrase "sadly looking"...
The excerpt expresses a sad, lonely mood in front of the natural scenery with many memories flooding back into the heart.
3. Write a paragraph analyzing the excerpt Kieu at Ngung Bich tower.
Write a paragraph analyzing Thuy Kieu's mood when she was in Ngung Bich tower - Sample 1
The excerpt “Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower” is an excerpt that deeply depicts Thuy Kieu’s state of mind when she has to leave the cold Ngung Bich Tower. It is a painful state of mind when her family is in trouble, the sorrow when her love is separated and she herself, from a beautiful young lady of the boudoir, has to fall into a filthy brothel. In the excerpt “Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower”, author Nguyen Du skillfully used many skillful writing techniques, but the most prominent is describing the scene, hiding the feelings, using the scene to express the feelings of the person, the person and the scene are therefore in harmony with each other. “Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower” is a picture painted with cold gray colors, evoking a very vivid mood, but it is also full of sadness and sorrow. The scene and the people in the excerpt seem to blend into one, expressing Thuy Kieu's loneliness, humiliation, and sadness in her difficult life, but it also shows Kieu's filial piety and loyalty to her parents and Kim Trong. Even though in the midst of the incident, Thuy Kieu's heart always turns to those she loves.
Write a paragraph analyzing Thuy Kieu's mood when she was in Ngung Bich tower - Sample 2
Thuy Kieu's mood was lonely, she thought about the past and her relatives, but that thought made her even more heartbroken. Looking at the moon, she remembered the moon with two faces in parallel and missed Kim who was still waiting for news of her, not knowing that she was in the corner of the world, alone. Her pain was having to give up love, give up the pure heart for her first love: When will the pure heart fade away? When will she be able to fade away her feelings for Kim? If it doesn't fade away, she will still be tormented and miserable. Not only did Kieu miss Kim Trong, she also felt sorry for her parents who stood by the door every day waiting for news of her, not knowing if her younger siblings were taking good care of her, if anyone replaced her to fan and warm her parents: She had only been away from home for more than a month, but she already felt like she had been away for a long time. With just four lines of internal monologue, Nguyen Du vividly, beautifully and emotionally expressed Thuy Kieu's filial piety. Even when she was suffering, lonely, and had lost all the most precious things in her life, Kieu still missed and worried about her relatives, proving that she was a selfless person, caring for her relatives more than herself.
Write a paragraph analyzing Thuy Kieu's mood when she was in Ngung Bich tower - Sample 3
The excerpt “Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower” is a good excerpt that depicts Thuy Kieu’s state of mind when she has to leave Kim Trong, her first romantic love, her painful state of mind when her family is in turmoil and she herself, from a beautiful young lady, has to fall into a dirty brothel. In the excerpt “Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower”, author Nguyen Du skillfully used many skillful writing techniques, but the most prominent is describing the scene, hiding the feelings, using the scene to express the feelings of people, people and the scene are therefore in harmony with each other. “Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower” is a picture painted with cold gray colors, evoking a very vivid mood, but it is also full of sadness and sorrow. The scene and the people in the excerpt seem to blend into one, expressing Thuy Kieu's loneliness, humiliation, and sadness in her difficult life, but it also shows Kieu's filial piety and loyalty to her parents and Kim Trong. Even though in the midst of the incident, Thuy Kieu's heart always turns to those she loves.
Write a paragraph analyzing Thuy Kieu's mood when she was in Ngung Bich tower - Sample 4
Nguyen Du is a great poet of Vietnamese literature, a world cultural celebrity. His name is associated with "The Tale of Kieu". The excerpt "Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower" expresses Kieu's lonely, sorrowful, and sad mood, especially in the last 8 verses. After missing home, her parents, and her lover, Kieu thought about her miserable, lonely fate. Kieu looked far away, where there was a vast sea, searching for a figure, a breath of humanity. But Kieu only saw a small boat that seemed to be sinking in the middle of the endless ocean. Perhaps, that boat was also Kieu, lonely and alone in Ngung Bich Tower. Unable to find it far away, Kieu looked closer. Kieu saw in the middle of the flowing water a flower floating aimlessly. That flower also symbolized the precarious fate of Thuy Kieu. The grass out there is so green but it is still tinged with a sad mood. The horizon, the ground, the grass and trees are all green but it does not bring joy and vitality. It is true that "when people are sad, the scenery is never happy". The sea water out there is swept by the wind, the wind pushes the waves, the waves collide with each other creating a rumbling sound. The roaring sound of the waves is perhaps pitying Thuy Kieu's fate, or is it Kieu's heart that is screaming in pain. With only 8 verses, we can see Thuy Kieu's sad, painful and lonely mood in Ngung Bich tower and through that we can also feel the humane value that the author conveys.
Write a paragraph analyzing Thuy Kieu's mood when she was in Ngung Bich tower - Sample 5
Remembering Kim Trong, she remembered the sacred memory of the night of their vows and engagement, “Thinking of you under the moon with a bronze cup”. She imagined Kim Trong, unaware of her situation, still thinking of her, waiting for news in vain, still waiting day and night in the distant land of Liaoyang. Kieu remembered Kim Trong in a state of pain and sorrow. When will the red thread be washed away? Perhaps that "red thread" is Kieu's steadfast, loyal heart, constantly missing Kim Trong. Missing her parents, she feels "sorry" when imagining, in her hometown, her parents are still leaning against the door waiting for news of their beloved daughter. It is also a deep and lingering pity for not being able to "fan the heat and warm the cold", to take care of her parents when they are old and weak. Every time she remembers her parents, Kieu "remembers the nine profound words of gratitude" and always regrets having failed her parents' efforts to give birth and raise them. That shows a filial heart, rich in sacrifice. Nguyen Du puts her longing for Kim Trong before her longing for her parents, which is in accordance with her psychological development. Thus, the 8 verses are Kieu's longing for the person she loves - Kim Trong and for her parents.
4. List of exam questions analyzing the excerpt Kieu at Ngung Bich Tower (excerpt from The Tale of Kieu - Nguyen Du)
Topic 1: Analyze the excerpt Kieu at Ngung Bich tower.
Topic 2: Analyze the values in the excerpt Kieu in Ngung Bich tower by author Nguyen Du.
Topic 1: Analysis of the excerpt Kieu at Ngung Bich tower
Nguyen Du is a cultural celebrity, a great poet of our nation. He left the Vietnamese literary treasure a great masterpiece loved by international friends, which is the work Truyen Kieu. Besides the realistic and humanistic values, Nguyen Du's Truyen Kieu is artistically successful with its excellent style of describing the scene, implying feelings and describing the inner feelings of the characters. Nguyen Du reached the highest level of love in history with the excerpt Kieu in Ngung Bich tower, successfully describing Kieu's sadness and loneliness and her loyal and filial heart.
The excerpt Kieu in the Ngung Bich tower is in the section on Family changes and wandering. The 22-line poem not only expresses Nguyen Du's sympathy for the fate of a talented but ill-fated woman, but also demonstrates a unique writing style of describing the scene and implying feelings with the words of an inner monologue to express Thuy Kieu's feelings and mood.
In front of the Ngung Bich tower, spring is locked
The distant mountains and the near moon are together
The four sides are vast and far-reaching.
Golden sand on this dune, pink dust on that mile
Embarrassed by morning clouds and late night lights
Half love half scene like dividing heart
With his descriptive brush strokes, Nguyen Du successfully described Thuy Kieu's state of mind with the key word "spring" showing Kieu's situation as a caged bird and a bowled fish, imprisoned and locking up her youth. The key word "spring" does not refer to the girls in the palace but is a bitter irony for Kieu's fate. Kieu is alone in the vastness of time and desolate space in a foreign land, lonely and exiled to a brothel.
Lau Ngung Bich is a place with beautiful scenery, a romantic and poetic scene expressed through the words distant mountains, near moon, yellow sand, this hill, pink dust, that mile. However, from ancient times until now, people who are sad can never be happy. In such a lonely and imprisoned situation, Kieu looked at the scene with sad and quiet eyes, looking at the moon, she only saw a lonely moon, looking at the land, she only saw undulating sand dunes with pink dust on one side.
We can see that Ngung Bich tower is just a small dot in the middle of nature, in the vastness of the sky and water. In the space surrounded by early morning clouds, Den Khuya is a closed cycle of time, everything seems to restrain Kieu's Youth, Kieu's life was stripped to death by the cruel forces of feudal society, deepening her sadness and loneliness, making Kieu feel even more humiliated and sad because no one shared with her and she only knew how to be friends with clouds, lamps and the desolate landscape. In that desperate loneliness, Kieu felt distant and desolate, imprisoned and isolated from the foreign land.
Thinking of the person under the moon with a bronze cup
The news of the frost has been waiting for me all day long.
The horizon is lonely
When will the lipstick fade away?
When she was at Ngung Bich tower, Kieu remembered Kim Trong. This is a unique and special stroke of writing that fits Thuy Kieu's psychology of expressing her loyalty. The words "think" and "wait" in Kieu's inner monologue highlight her endless longing for Kim Trong. The more she remembers the couple's vows and promises from years ago, the more she feels sorry for Kim Trong. The wine cup of oath is still here, but now each person has gone their separate ways, making Thuy Kieu regretful and heartbroken, as if she were the one who betrayed him.
She imagined Kim Trong was thinking of her in vain, making her even more heartbroken and worried that even though they were in different directions, her feelings for Kim Trong were forever and could not fade. The more she thought about it, the more worried she became, forcing her to ask a rhetorical question. She wondered when she would be able to wash away the dirt of her loyal heart to be able to respond to Kim Trong's love. Not only did she miss her lover, in that high building, she also missed her parents:
Pity the person leaning against the door tomorrow
Who is fanning the heat and cooling the cold now?
Lai yard is away from the sun and rain
Sometimes the root is big enough for a person to hug.
The monologue language combined with the old writing style, Kieu's sad mood appears very clearly. The words "tomorrow", "how many sunny days" describe the longing for her parents that lasts for years. Kieu feels sorry for her parents who worry day and night, look forward to them day and night, she worries about her old parents at home with no one to take care of them or support them. The idiom "fan hot and warm, warm cold" together with the story of Son Lai, the root of the tree express the longing and show that Kieu is a filial daughter.
She was afraid that everything in her homeland had changed, her parents were getting older and weaker, so she was extremely tormented and guilty for not fulfilling her duty as a child to take care of her parents. In the situation of being imprisoned in Ngung Bich tower. Having to wander to a foreign land, Kieu herself was the most pitiful person, but with her soul and her noble and beautiful personality, she always sacrificed herself, forgetting her current situation to worry and think about Kim Trong, her parents, and Kieu's relatives. Kieu's longing was very genuine and profound, from which we can see that this was a filial child, a loyal lover and a person with a forgiving heart.
Kieu's sadness is no longer only in her heart but is clearly expressed through the scenery outside. Each scene has its own character and describes an aspect of Kieu's mood.
Sad looking at the sea door in the afternoon
Whose boat is that sail is faintly visible in the distance?
The scene that opens up for us is a scene of sunset at the sea in the afternoon, reminding us of the last rays of the day, reflecting on the blue sea, making everything tinged with a dark color. There is something passionate and nostalgic, Kieu seems to regret the days of the past. The faint, distant words describe the loneliness, solitude, similar to Kieu's situation now.
Alone in a foreign land, lost in the Bich tower, Kieu only knew how to think about her homeland, think about her parents, and hope for a boat that could save her. But that boat was only vaguely visible in the distance, sometimes dim, sometimes visible. Whose boat was drifting and disappearing on the distant horizon, just like Kieu's life, drifting and not knowing where to go. Not knowing when she would be able to return home to repay her parents.
Sad to see the new falling water
Flowers drifting aimlessly, not knowing where to go
The fragile petals fluttering in the small stream of water could not withstand the strength of all the water, just like Kieu's fate in the old society. Although she was a virtuous, talented, and beautiful person, it was the oppressive power that crushed her, crushed her talent. Kieu's fate was now lost, alone, drifting along the uncertain stream of life, not knowing where to go. Looking at the crushed petals, Kieu remembered Kim Trong, feeling even more sad and sorry for her fate:
Sad to see the grass sad
The sky and the ground are blue.
In contrast to the name of the green building through Kieu's eyes, it becomes truly sad with the reduplicative word "sầu sầu" evoking the image of a withered and withered lawn. Kieu's beautiful youth with a perfect talent and beauty should have given her a full life, a happy life, but that youth will fade and be tasteless like that withered green. Green is the color of hope but now it has withered like Thuy Kieu's faith is gradually running out with increasing sadness in Thuy Kieu.
Sad to see the wind blowing on the surface
The sound of waves roaring around the chair
The sound of the waves rumbling, in the wind-driven scene of the surface of the sea, was like a storm waiting for Kieu ahead. She was worried about when disaster would strike, like the sound of the waves in the distance, the rumbling sound of the waves was a sign of a stormy future that made Kieu afraid.
With the repetition of "Buon" placed in the first four lines of the poem like a sigh, along with the deep rhythm and even tones, it emphasizes a sadness that is rising in Thuy Kieu's mood, along with the scenery that is becoming more and more immense, the reduplicated words "distant", "looming", "much", "sad", "green", "roaring" like the waves surging in Kieu's soul.
The poem Kieu O Lau Ngung Bich is the best poem describing the scene and implying the feelings in the Tale of Kieu as well as in Vietnamese medieval literature. Through the poem, we can understand more about Kieu's personality. She is a loyal person, a filial daughter and a person of altruism. At the same time, we feel the harshness of feudal society, which pushed such pitiful people into difficult circumstances.
Kieu in Ngung Bich tower is a poem that delicately describes the inner feelings of the character. With the skillful technique of describing the scene and expressing the feelings, it highlights Thuy Kieu's situation and proves Nguyen Du's outstanding talent. It is Nguyen Du's tolerance, sympathy and sharing that has entered the minds of generations.
Topic 2: Analyze the values in the excerpt Kieu in Ngung Bich tower by author Nguyen Du
Nguyen Du is a great Vietnamese national poet and a world cultural celebrity. The Tale of Kieu is one of the pinnacles of Vietnamese literature, the crystallization of profound realistic and humane values. The excerpt Kieu at Ngung Bich Tower is a typical excerpt of the art and pen describing the inner thoughts of the characters. With Nguyen Du's great writing style of describing the scene and implying the feelings, he shows us the lonely and sad mood and the loyal and filial heart of Thuy Kieu, at the same time expressing the writer's profound humanitarian thoughts.
Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower is an excerpt from the second part of Family Change and Wandering. After knowing that she was tricked into a place of youth, Kieu was very humiliated and intended to commit suicide. But Madam Tu was afraid that if Kieu died, she would lose a lot of money unjustly, so she pretended to wait for Kieu to recover, marry her off to a decent place, then imprisoned Kieu in Ngung Bich Tower to carry out her new despicable plot. The excerpt opens with a desolate scene in Ngung Bich Tower:
In front of the Ngung Bich tower, the spring is locked
The distant mountains and the near moon are together
The author's ironic way of saying that is the period of time Kieu was imprisoned by Madam Tu. When Kieu had just experienced suffering and was now locked up in a deserted, desolate place, she felt lonely and bored.
The distant mountains and the near moon are together
The image of Ngung Bich tower standing alone in the middle of the river from the top floor looking out around is a vast and immense space, everything is far away.
The four sides are vast and far-reaching.
Golden sand on this dune, pink dust on that mile
The next two verses evoke a vast, desolate time and space. From Ngung Bich tower, looking out into the distance, one can only see distant mountain ranges and misty sand dunes. Kieu fell into a lonely situation, she had no one to keep her company, Kieu's mood was pushed to the depths of despair.
Embarrassed by morning clouds and late night lights
Half love half scene like dividing heart
When living alone in a bare building in a deserted space and time, there is no interaction between people. Embarrassment is Thuy Kieu's boredom and shame. The phrase "morning clouds, late night lights" describes the closed and repetitive cycle of time. Time and space here seem to be holding people back. There, Kieu only knows how to be friends with the clouds, and at night she is friends with the lamp. Whether it is day or night, Kieu always has to face sadness and loneliness. In such a lonely situation, people often think about their loved ones and Thuy Kieu is the same, Kieu remembers her relatives, remembers her lover who is waiting for her to return day and night. The next eight verses of the excerpt describe Thuy Kieu's longing for her lover and parents. The first person she remembers is Kim Trong - her first love:
Thinking of the person under the moon with a bronze cup
The fairy of dew waits day and night
The horizon is lonely
When will the lipstick fade away?
Surely many people will wonder why Thuy Kieu did not remember her parents first but remembered Kim Trong. Perhaps selling herself to redeem her father was considered as her fulfilling her filial duty to her parents. So many things happened to her that now when she was in Ngung Bich tower, she remembered her lover, she blamed herself for betraying Kim Trong, she remembered the vow of their love in the past when she and Kim Trong raised a cup of wine together under the moonlight. She was in Ngung Bich tower and thought about Kim Trong waiting for her news, missing Kim Trong with a painful and sorrowful mood. In the verse "When will the body be washed away?", we can feel the pain of the loyal love that Thuy Kieu had for Kim Trong but that love was trampled and tarnished by human traffickers. A question that arises is how and when can this filth be washed away. That shows that Thuy Kieu's love for Kim Trong is always faithful and never fades. Kieu is not only in pain but also feels very ashamed for having betrayed Kim, betraying his expectation and waiting. The words "waiting" and "desolate" express Thuy Kieu's inner monologue, she misses her lover dearly, and feels sorry for her pure love.
When I think of Kim Kieu, I think of my parents.
Pity the person leaning against the door tomorrow
Who is fanning the heat and cooling the cold now?
Lai yard is away from the sun and rain
Sometimes the root is big enough for a person to hug.
Once again, Kieu thought about her blood relatives. When she thought about her parents, she felt extremely sorry for them. She felt sorry for them when they stood at the door every morning and evening waiting for news from their children. She felt sorry for her parents when they reached retirement age without anyone to take care of them. She worried about who would take care of them when they were old. The idiom "fan hot and cool", the allusion to San Lai, the root of the dead, expressed Kieu's longing and filial piety. She imagined that everything had changed in her hometown, her parents were getting older and weaker. The phrase "cac may nang mua" shows the time through many rainy and sunny seasons, at the same time expressing the destructive power of nature, the sun and rain, on the landscape and people. When thinking about her parents, Kieu always felt regretful because she thought she had failed her parents' efforts in giving birth and raising her. With 8 verses, Nguyen Du fully described Thuy Kieu's longing for Kim Trong, for her parents who gave birth to her and raised her to adulthood with a persistent and poignant longing.
The last eight verses of the poem with the lonely and sad mood, Thuy Kieu is even more clearly expressed through the picture of the mood. The repetition of "Buon" appearing at the beginning of each verse makes the sadness multiply. Each verse is a scene, a mood of Kieu, but all are pain and despair. Kieu feels sorry for her fate, for her loved ones. This can be considered the best verse in the work "Truyen Kieu", the external and internal scenery, the natural scenery and the character's mood changes are expressed through a system of conventional language.
Sad looking at the sea door in the afternoon
Those boats are fluttering far away
The vast sea in the sunset afternoon further increases the sadness and loneliness of those far from home. The boat sometimes appears and sometimes disappears, the sail faintly appears in the distance, haunting. Thuy Kieu wants to find someone to sympathize with her. The image of the boat appearing is the image of human life, but that boat is faintly visible in the distance, sometimes dimly visible, through which we see the image of Thuy Kieu's loneliness without a place to rely on;
Sad to see the wind blowing new leaves
Flowers let me know where they are going
When looking at the offshore sails that could not be, Kieu brought her eyes close to finding sympathy by the scenery. But the image of flowers drifting away is known where it is forecast for the life of the life, the floating and floating life of Kieu. Kieu did not know where her life would go in the middle of that infinite life. The flower image was overwhelmed by the waves as well as the life of Kieu who were oppressed by feudal forces that pushed her into a tragic life. In addition, with her talent and beauty, Kieu had to have a happy life but talented silver life was born in a society where human rights did not have so much humiliation.
When looking into the distance, Kieu only saw on the dim green background the withered yellow color of the grass.
Sad to see the grass sad
The sky and the ground are blue.
The image of grass here is no longer a fresh image like the Qingming Festival but has become withered. The word "sad" expresses a melancholy feeling that is multiplied when looking far away and then looking close, both sad and listening. She focused on listening to the sound of the wind, the roar of the waves. The lonely mood is going through moments of anxiety and fear.
Sad looks windy face
Rumbling waves around the seat
The word rumble represents a loud, sudden sound. Is that a prediction of the disasters that Kieu is about to face in the future?
The scene of Ngung Bich tower is seen through Thuy Kieu's mood. The scene is observed from far to near, the color changes from light to dark, the sound from still to moving. Kieu's sadness is described from deep sadness to anxiety and fear. All are described in an increasing direction, emphasizing Kieu's sadness, loneliness and pitiful fate. With only 8 verses, the repetition of the phrase "Buon trong" is placed at the beginning of the sentence and appears four times, which further shows Kieu's deep sadness affecting the scene. Because in the past, when people are sad, the scene has never been happy, that is the sadness, the pain of a wandering person's life.
Kieu in Ngung Bich tower is a poem that delicately describes the character's inner thoughts. With the skillful writing style of describing the scene and implying the feelings, it highlights Kieu's situation, helping us understand more about Thuy Kieu. She is a loyal lover, a dutiful daughter, always sacrificing herself for everyone and ignoring her own needs. At the same time, through the excerpt, we can see the sympathy, sharing and humanitarian spirit of writer Nguyen Du for the character, as well as for many lives in the old society. It is the poet's sincere emotions that have left deep impressions on the reader's heart.
This is a very good and unique excerpt. Through the work, we seem to understand and sympathize more with the people in the old society, they have talent and beauty but are crushed by society and pushed to the end of the road to live a life of drifting without a destination.
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