DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2025.v13i07.003

Pages: 144-149

This study compares the characteristics of Sino-Vietnamese symbolic poetry texts in the 1930s from the perspective of personal pronouns and gender expression. Chinese poetry uses first and third person pronouns to construct personal consciousness and gentleness, inheriting the tradition of Wen-Li poetry. Vietnamese poetry uses the kinship form of address “anh/em” to increase lyrical interaction, placing gentle beauty in the masculine narrative axis. This difference reflects the divergence of literary modernization: China is influenced by the Western concept of “ego”, Vietnam combines indigenous culture to express “individual liberation”. The study affirms the unique role of pronouns and gender as cross-cultural symbols, expanding the approach to the study of modern East Asian poetry.