Blog # 1 Favorite song
Since growing up in Vietnam, I prefer Vietnamese songs to American songs. One of my favorite songs is “Dem Ganh Hao Nghe Dieu Hoai Lang.” This song is about the wife whose husband went to war and not come back but she still waited for him until the old age. The melody of the song praises the eternal love and loyalty of the woman toward her man. Somehow, I feel connected to the woman in this song. The feeling that this woman was going through is exactly what I am feeling right now. It’s the feeling of love but a lonely love. When we love, we want to be together inseparably forever. But is it fair for us when someone would not return our love? Nowadays, I don’t think women would just sit and wait for love. I am not! I want to find my love and that love is also in returned. If he doesn’t love me anymore, I rather continue on with my life without him. This song serves as one of stereotypes about Vietnamese women’s virtue which has also trapped many unhappy lives in unfortunate fates since the old days.
hey nancy, well i think we all have to go through that prosses where we love someone and that person doesnt feel the same for us. i admire that your able to write about it because most of us just rather forget about it.
ReplyDeleteyes, that's right. We all try to forget about the past but I think the past makes us stronger and become who we are today.
ReplyDeleteThis really shows me that you have experienced alot of things in your life and that you have grown as a person because of it. Thank you for sharing this with us.
ReplyDeleteHi Nancy.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all that is a pretty long name for a song! ;) Well I consider and the song is really sad, but at the same time it expresses the reality of life. We know that not everybody is going to be corespond in Love. Although there is a very good learning behind all this, when you really love someone it doesn't matter what you go thru and the loyalty this wife shows is very admirable...
Did the soldier not come back because he died? Maybe her love was so strong that she didn't want to forget him. If you lose a loved one you will carry the memory of that loved one forever. You can move on and you will still have that memory of that person forever.
ReplyDeletewells, the truth in this song is that there are two endings: one is that the soldier died in the war; the other one is that the soldier assumped that his wife was killed in the war, therefore, he moved on and not came back. It's really sad, right. However, we can't blame anyone's fault here. It's just because of the war.
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