Interpoetic resonance between Vietnamese Thơ Mới and Russian Romanticism: a comparative study in lyric subjectivity, Rhythm and affective imagery

This article advances interpoeticity as a diagnostic framework for comparative poetics through a systematic analysis of Vietnamese Thơ Mới (1932–1945) and Russian Romantic lyric (1810s–1850s). Rejecting both genealogical influence models and unbounded lyric universalism, it operationalizes resonance through cross-domain clustering: interpoetic correspondence is warranted only when lyric subject positioning, rhythmic–syntactic segmentation and image-schematic or chronotopic encoding converge within the same poem-level configuration. Close analysis of a curated bilingual corpus identifies recurrent configurations of destabilized subjectivity, prosodic disjunction, liminal landscape schematization, semantic polarity and temporality under pressure, synthesized in a comparative matrix. The findings demonstrate that structurally comparable lyric configurations can emerge under distinct historical and semiotic conditions without implying symbolic equivalence or direct transmission. Methodologically and integratively, the article refines affiliative comparison by articulating explicit inferential warrants for diagnosing resonance while preserving cultural specificity, thereby offering a replicable and theoretically bounded model for cross-traditional lyric analysis.