THOUGHTS OF HANOI

STRUCTURE

• Length: 77 lines
• Verse: Free Verse
• Stanza: 7
• Rhyme: seemingly no rhyme (but translated from a different language)

REPETITION

• ALMOST HALF THE STANZAS START WITH "BROTHER,"
• "Brother,/how is Hang Dao now?"
• "Brother,/how is all that now?"
• "Brother, we are men,/conscious of more"

ENJAMBMENT

• "The girls/bright eyes/ruddy cheeks/four-piece dresses..."
• There's only one end punctuation mark in the whole third stanza
• (All seventeen lines)

NARRATIVE

The poem is about a boy who is missing his brother as they were fighting on separate sides of the Vietnam War

"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye

• "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye
• This song was written by Marvin Gaye about the war in Vietnam when his own brother was fighting in it
• It connects very closely to one of the themes of the poem which is missing someone/something you love

CITATION

• Nguyen Thi Vinh. "Thoughts of Hanoi." Many Voices Literature: Reading the World.
• Ed. Carol Francis and Julie A. Schumacher. Logan. 2012. 612-614. Ebook.
• (Background photo is a picture of Nguyen Thi Vinh)

MADE BY

• Maggie Riley