The Artistic Language of Binh Nguyen Trang’s Poetry: from A Lexico-Semantic and Stylistic Perspective

This article examines the characteristics of artistic language in Binh Nguyen Trang’s poetry across two primary dimensions: lexico-semantics and stylistics. Based on a comprehensive survey of two poetry collections, The Night of Golden Flowers (Đêm hoa vàng) and The Song of Return (Bài hát ngày trở về), the study identifies prominent markers that construct the author’s feminine, contemplative, and deeply meditative poetic style. The findings reveal that a systematic interplay of reduplicative words (từ láy), Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary, colloquialisms, and semantic fields (encompassing humanity, nature, movement, and emotions)—combined with rhetorical devices such as repetition, comparison, metaphor, personification, and orthographic stylistics—collectively forge a linguistic world that is soft, highly musical, yet philosophically profound. Consequently, the article affirms that the language in Binh Nguyen Trang’s poetry serves not merely as a medium for emotional expression but as a stylistic code reflecting her distinct perception of humanity, time, memory, and the impermanence of existence

Keywords: Binh Nguyen Trang; artistic language; poetic language; lexico-semantics; rhetorical devices; stylistics.

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