Realistically, free style poetry is not an ideal vehicle to carry love poetry. We know that the very first free style love poem, Old Love (Tình Già) by Phan Khôi, was a failure, while a successful love poem by Hữu Loan, The Purple of Sim Blossoms (Màu Tím Hoa Sim), in fact, preserved the rhythms and rhyme-schemes of Traditional Pre-War poetry. It became popular as a song when the poem was set to music. The very nature of free style poetry is to reject the rhyme-schemes of Traditional Pre-War poetry, similar to the way that the West’s free verse poetry rebelled against traditional western forms. When poetry in the West rejected traditional forms of poetry, it was an artistic search to redefine poetry at its very core. The meaning in analysis supplanted the importance of rhythm and rhymes. The reader became actively involved with the poems and interpreted the poems in their own particular ways. Multi-level meaning and interpretation occurred with each reading, not necessarily following the word meanings. Finding a way to attain fulfillment of the new out of the old is indeed a respectable accomplishment of modern poetry. This success rests in part on the logical foundation of Western civilizations. In all their endeavors, a scientific need to understand is fundamental. Analytical reasoning had become deeply ingrained in the Western psyche. It has become second nature and part of culture. For nearly a century, free verse poetry enjoyed the dynamic variations of many diverse schools. Dadaism and Surrealism, based on the incidental and coincidental, explored new imageries and new ideas, creating a strange sense with the readers. In both poetry and visual arts, these trends developed concurrently with the drive to make new art the primary vehicle of expression in the modern world. And with each school crashing onto the scene, rebelling against tradition and form, in the classical sense, the artists became obsessed with finding their own style, their own imagery, their own word usage to create new thoughts and feelings. Cubism (Lập thể), Abstractionism, and Pop Art or Conceptual Art in the visual (plastic) arts are examples. The craft is not found in the talent of
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