UNIQUE ART OF CHILDREN’S POETRY BY DUONG THUAN

Abstract

For Duong Thuan, a Tay poet, writing poetry for children is only part of his over-twenty-year brilliant career, but he affirmed his own style in Vietnamese children’s poems. Children's poetry by Duong Thuan has many unique characteristics of content and art that should be studied and introduced. In this article, we go into some artistic aspects of poetry written for children by Duong Thuan through poetry collections such as “Cuoi ngua di san (Hunting on horse’s back), Ba lao va chich choe (The old lady and the Thrushbeard), Tho voi tuoi tho (Poems and childhood), Chia trung cong (Dividing peacock’s eggs)”, etc. on that basis, we will affirm Duong Thuan’s important position in modern Vietnamese children's literature.