Top 5 best poems in short story “Silently Sa Pa” by Nguyen Thanh Long (grade 9)

First of all, the poetry in the work is expressed in the beauty of nature, specifically the mountains and forests of Sa Pa.

In the story, following the bus that took the old painter and the young engineer to Sa Pa, the author leads the reader to the mountainous spaces of the Northwest with wild and poetic beauty: “The clouds cast off each white fan. up from the valleys… The sun was now beginning to come in, burning the trees. The pines were only overhead, fluttering in the sun, silver fingers under the veiled gaze of the viburnums that occasionally protruded their lilac heads above the green of the forest. Clouds are blown away by the sun, curl up in lumps, roll on the dew-wet leaf arches, fall on the main road, and go under the car.

At the end of the story, when the painter and the engineer said goodbye to Sa Pa, the scenery of the mountains and forests was described again: “At that time, the sun had silvered the whole pass, burning the forest like a bunch of trees. big torch. The sunlight makes the bouquet even more brilliant and makes the girl feel more radiant. The author doesn’t describe much, but only with dotted strokes, through the clear text, rich in images, language such as lines, shapes, colors, and natural scenery of Sapa appear impressive with the beauty of Sapa. pure, friendly. This poetic setting acts as a backdrop for a poetic story, a catalyst and a fulcrum for the poetry in the story to be sublimated.

The poetry in Quietly Sa Pa is prominently shown through the beauty of the people and their simple yet touching stories. In the story, there is no villain. All appear with their own beauties. An old painter with a genuine desire for art, a young engineer with an ideal of dedicating youth, a driver with more than 30 years of hard work, a Sa Pa vegetable garden engineer dedicated to his work, Mr. lightning researchers sacrificed their own happiness for their passion for science, his colleague on the top of Fansipan quietly devoted himself to the community…,

All the characters of Quietly Sa Pa appear with radiant beauty in their souls and way of life. Not only are they passionate and wholehearted in their work, they also know how to sacrifice their personal happiness for the ideal of building and enriching the country. Although it is quiet and idyllic (most of the characters have no names – this is an artistic intention of the author), their personalities and souls still radiate a sparkling human beauty.

Prominent in the story is the image of a young man. This is the image that focuses on the beauty of the people in the story. Through the driver’s narration, the recognition and evaluation of the young artist and engineer, especially, through his own language and actions, the young man’s character appears in the story with beautiful beauty. own: Having an orderly, scientific and poetic lifestyle (“a clean, three-room house, with tables and chairs, books, charts, statistics, walkie-talkie”), do not feel lonely because there are the joy of planting flowers, reading books); love the job, be dedicated, responsible and always find joy in work (“when we work, we are a couple, how can we call it alone? How much more so that your work is associated with mine. how many brothers and sisters down there. My job is so hard, but put it away, I’m sad to death”); sincere, open, thoughtful and caring for others (donating the ventricles for your wife to drive for treatment, being happy when guests come to visit, welcoming guests warmly, nostalgia, giving gifts when parting) ; honest, humble (recognizes his contribution is small compared to others, refuses to draw portraits and introduce people who are more deserving than himself).

It can be said that, appearing with simple, everyday but noble beauty, the young man is the typical image of the “quiet” people in the “Sa Pa”, a portrait of a new worker in the country. The new era is contributing to the construction and defense of the country. His soul, way of life, each story about his work are like poems with imbued human beauty. The poetry in the story radiates from the image of this character.

Not only in terms of content, the poetry in Quietly Sa Pa is also vividly expressed in many aspects of form. The general impression of readers about the work is that it is a light story with a simple plot, uncomplicated details, and a story that is not too dramatic. Although sometimes exciting, but mostly the story still has a slow, deliberate tone.

In particular, the story has a layer of clear, expressive language and images with expressions such as: Using a lot of words indicating colors (white waterfall, clouds reflecting each white fan, looming in the blue cover) la, a golden trident, silver fingers, protruding the lilac-green head of the forest, he only blushed, standing in the mist on the same level as the other rainbow, the peony, the dahlia , yellow, purple, red, pink, honeycomb…); Use a lot of slurs (quietly, loosely, faintly, easily, gently, confusedly, petty, clean, toe toe, softly, squishy, ​​squirming, stunned, deserted, tumbling. , wonder, brilliant,…); uses a lot of rhetorical comparisons (it’s like a cockroach gnawing on people, it’s like being cut into pieces, brothers and sisters are like butterflies, etc.).

It can be said that the poetic language class is one of the important aspects that make up the poetry throughout the entire work.

One of the factors that create the attraction and contribute to the success of the short story “Silently Sa Pa” is the immense poetic and lyrical quality in each word. The lyrical quality exuding from the beautiful and poetic natural landscape of Sa Pa is described through the eyes of an old painter: The natural image of Sapa has a poetic, unique and strange beauty.

Poetry exudes from the poetic scenery of Sapa like a picture. It is a place where the mountains are high, the waterfalls are white, with clouds, sunshine, and dew. The beginning of Sa Pa is the digging teeth along the road or the herds of old village cows, bell necks are tangible features of the colorful and colorful life here. Image of early-season forests enveloping each other “The pine trees are just above their heads, fluttering in the sun, silver fingers under the veiled gaze of the hyssop trees that occasionally protrude their lilac heads above the green. the green of the forest”.

Especially the beauty of the sun makes the scenery more splendid. “The sun is now starting to creep in and burn the trees”; “The sun has silvered the whole cat, burning the forest like a big torch. The sunlight makes the bouquet more brilliant and makes the girl feel more brilliant. One feels like being carried away by the rhythm of the clouds or full of emotions in the attraction of the sun.

Just sketches, but the natural scene is as beautiful as the pictures, twice as beautiful. Its natural beauty and the beauty through the artist’s soul of the painter. Poetry rises from the beauty of the people who live and work here. The beautiful nature makes the background to enhance the beauty of the people here. The high peaks of Yen Son and Fansipan are reminiscent of people at the height of dedication and sacrifice. The heat of the sun and the wind evokes the burning enthusiasm of the people working here. The nature is poetic, as pure as the souls of the people in Sapa.

The poetic and lyrical quality mainly emerges from the story’s content. From the chance meeting that left a lot of aftertaste in everyone’s heart, from the lovely simple beauty of the young man, from the stories he told about his life in the silence of Sapa, and from new feelings and emotions of the painter and engineer towards the young man.

It can be said that the short story Quietly Sa Pa has the appearance of a poem, the poetic quality is silver in the whole story, from the very poetic beauty of the high mountains to the images of people living and working. in silence but not lonely because of their attachment to the country, to everyone. The author has created a lyrical atmosphere for the work, enhancing the meaning and beauty of the very simple events and people depicted in the story, so that the theme of the story is clearer and deeper. .

Nguyen Thanh Long is a writer specializing in short stories and autographs. His works are a distillation of the reality of life. “Quietly Sa Pa” is a unique, attractive and captivating short story. The story was written after a trip to Lao Cai, a famously beautiful mountainous region. Commenting on the work, there was an opinion that: “Nguyen Thanh Long wrote a prose poem praising the beauty in the silence of nature and people in the remote land of the Fatherland.”

The comments in the article have highlighted the unique features covering the short story Quietly Sa Pa by Nguyen Thanh Long: poetic beauty, romantic lyricism of the fairy tale. This is also the unique feature that makes the unique beauty of Nguyen Thanh Long’s pen. The phrase “prose poem” means a poem rich in poetry, short story is a prose genre of narrative type, but Quietly SaPa is a prose work with many characteristics of poetry. Excitement, discovery about the human soul, fascination with dreamy nature, flexible sentence construction, full of flexibility. In terms of content, the comment points out Nguyen Thanh Long’s unique feature in praising the beauty in the quiet fragrance of nature and people in a remote land of the Fatherland. That is, the verbatim not only describes the shape of SaPa but also explores the soul of SaPa – the beauty of the people here. Nguyen Thanh Long is a unique writer and poet.

It can be seen that the poetry in Quietly Sapa shows the harmony between content and form, between nature and people, with a lyrical humanist pen. We can feel the poetry radiating from here, imbued with the title of the work. “Silently SaPa” – under the pen of NTL – is as beautiful as a concise verse. The word “quiet” in the title gives the reader a sense of space, of moments of peace and serenity. The silence associated with Sa Pa reminds people of the land of fog, of old mansions, where just hearing the name, people think of rest. There, there are beautiful poetic and enchanting scenes, there are herds of oxen wearing bells leisurely grazing, there are beautiful pine forests shimmering under the sun… Coming to Sa Pa, we can relax. Leaving all the troubles of life, is a place where time stops so that we can relax and enjoy the world freely… But in every sentence written by Nguyen Thanh Long, Sa Pa reappears with beauty. absolutely different.

The silence of Sapa also contains the sublime and humble silence of the people who are working day and night with enthusiasm and enthusiasm to contribute to building a new life. They are scientists without names. Their name is associated with the job. It is a young man who works in meteorology and geophysics on Yen Son mountain with a beautiful, admirable, lovely, lovely way of living and thinking. That is the engineer under the Sa Pa vegetable garden “day after day” sitting hard in the kohlrabi garden watching how bees collect pollen and pollinate flowers. That’s the lightning map researcher at the meteorological center, has been 11 years without a day away from the office, always in the position of waiting for lightning “in the middle of the night it’s raining, windy, cold, wearing, listening to lightning is run out in shock.” He sacrificed his personal happiness for the passion of his work to exploit the “deep sinking, deep sinking” underground to enrich the country… All of them are people who are passionate about their work, who are playing music. quietly devoted themselves to the country and people. It can be said that inside the silence of Sapa is a vibrant and meaningful life. Thus, the title of the work shows both the poetic and magical beauty of Sapa’s nature, as well as the quiet but great and noble dedication of the people here. With such a title, does the author want to use the place as a background to highlight the beauty of people?

Poetry also exudes when praising the unique beauty of the majestic and poetic nature of Sapa. The climate here is harmonious, that’s why the four seasons are lush. Sa appearing in Nguyen Thanh Long’s short story with skillful language has become a beautiful, vivid, and poetic picture. Reading his stories, readers no longer see Sa Pa with wild and mysterious beauty, but on the contrary, the nature here enters the reader’s perception as a very poetic, charming, and humorous land. harmony between natural beauty, life and people. Following in the footsteps of the writer, we cannot help but be surprised by the mountain scenery of Sapa. The waterfall is white, the road is winding, the trees are dense, crowded and appear more and more attractive with peach groves, “ancient oxen with bells in the meadows in the valleys on both sides of the road.” What a peaceful and quiet life! The sun in Sapa is so beautiful.

The unique description of Nguyen Thanh Long’s pen has exalted the brilliant beauty of Sa Pa’s sunshine: the sun now begins to creep in to burn the forest, burning like a big torch. Each sentence, each word seems to have lines, colors, and shapes, which are both full of painting and have the smooth sound rhythm of a poem. Readers seem to witness the beauty of human beings with artistic vibrations before the natural beauty of the country. Through the painter and the girl’s perception, each cloud and even the dew line are full of life. The clouds here appear to have an interesting beauty: the clouds are blown away by the sun, curl up in lumps, roll on the dew-wet leaf arches, fall on the main road, and go under the car to make the space here cool. cold, fuzzy. The flower garden with vibrant colors as well as the soul and life of the quiet people here boils and flows in the dreamy vitality of youth. “The sun has silvered the whole pass… brilliant as well”. It seems that the natural beauty has made the background for the beauty of the people here, exalting their beauty on the high mountain peaks of Yen Son, and Fansipan, we all see people at the height of their dedication. and sacrifice. Perhaps that’s why on the bus ride to Sa Pa with an interesting feeling about nature here, readers understand that nature is not only a picture that reflects the silent but intense vitality of human life. but also an attractive invitation for us to discover the wonders of this land.

On the background of that magical natural picture, Sapa is even more beautiful with people who work selflessly for the country. The poetry of the work exudes from the beauty of the souls of the people here. First of all, a young man who works in meteorology and geophysics, lives alone on the top of Yen Son, more than two thousand six hundred meters high, all year round, among the trees and clouds of Sa Pa mountain. He is a responsible person, passionate about his work and kind to everyone. I understand that my job is arduous, but without it, you are sad to death because work is my joy and source of life. He has found happiness in work. He considers work as his companion, so his life is never boring and boring. He confided: when we work, we are a couple, how can it be called alone? What’s more, my work is related to how many brothers and sisters below. That person also has a very simple but very beautiful concept of happiness – that is, being able to work and dedicating himself to the country. Therefore, when he learned that thanks to his detection of dry clouds, our air force had downed many American planes, he felt very happy. In short, being devoted to science is his life’s ideal. His thoughts on life are so beautiful, so profound. Not only is he a person with beautiful thoughts, he is also a person who knows how to act beautifully.

In extremely difficult circuTaxances, living alone on the top of Yen Son, making friends with green forests, white clouds, blizzards, dew falling due to wind, rain, sunshine, cloudiness, and ground tremors , engaged in daily weather forecast, production service, combat service. Although no one urged or checked, he was still voluntarily self-disciplined with a high sense of responsibility. The work required it to be done at difficult times like midnight in the middle of a cold winter, but whatever the circuTaxances, at that moment he would wake up, carry the light on, take the meter to measure, never missed a day, never forgot a single session, silently persisted for many years. But the most difficult thing for him is overcoming loneliness, desertion, year-round, monthless month. And he overcame it with hard work and passion. He used all of his time, enthusiasm, mind and energy for the assigned task, and when he had a little free time, he took out the book to talk. From those quiet jobs, he directly contributed to the overall victory of the army and people of the North. In particular, Nguyen Thanh Long cleverly included in the story the young man giving the girl a colorful bouquet of flowers. That bouquet is not only the beauty of nature, the land of Sapa, but it is also the beauty of the life that the young man generously gave to everyone. That detail has revealed a truth: live beautifully, take care of each other, come together with all your heart and kindness.

Through the young man’s story, we also see an industrious, passionate, hard-working vegetable garden engineer, day by day observing how bees get honey, how bees pollinate to find ways to increase plant yield. planting, that is a beautiful purpose. As for the scientific researcher, he has not left the agency for eleven years, always in a position to be ready for a lightning wave to map Vietnam’s lightning, to find out what is shallow and deep underground to enrich the country. . He let his youth pass, forgetting his own happiness, despite all dangers. The people here are quietly dedicated, no one knows, but in that silence are the souls who are not quiet. They understand the importance of what they are doing is meaningful to the country, to the people. They work with passion, with selfless passion. They deserve to be beautiful rhymes in the poem of life.

Writer Nguyen Thanh Long has given us a lot of inspiration about the beauty of nature and people of Sapa. Readers seem to hear the writer’s gentle advice and feelings through the poetic fairy tale with the unique name Quietly Sa Pa. It is to look at people to discover the infinitely small but commendable things.

Only a life for others is a precious life!

The meaningful sentence of scientist A. Einstein makes us ponder and think about life, about the duties of every human being in this life. That implication was conveyed by writer Nguyen Thanh Long through a The work is poetic, imbued with lyricism – “Silence Sa Pa”. Coming to the short story “Silence Sapa”, we not only admire the people who work selflessly for others, for the country. but also intoxicated, ecstatic in the romantic lyrical intoxication of a poetic nature through the pages of very talented writing. It must be said that one of the factors that create the attraction and contribute to the success of the story. This short is Lyrical.

Nguyen Thanh Long (1925 – 1991) from Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province, was a writer specializing in short stories and autographs. He participated in cultural activities during the years of resistance against the French in the South Central region. After 1954, he gathered to the North to work at the Vietnam Writers’ Association, specializing in composing and editing. Nguyen Thanh Long’s short stories are not sinewy, thorny, but often mixed with substance, with a clear, poetic beauty, rich in lyricism. Main works: Uncle Ho’s Rice Bowl (1955), Wings flapping (1967), In the middle of green (1972)… With the story of Cu Ho’s Rice Bowl – 1953 Nguyen Thanh Long was awarded the Pham Van Dong prize.

The short story Quietly Sa Pa was the result of a trip to Lao Cai in the summer of 1970, later published in the volume Between the Green (1972) by Nguyen Thanh Long. This is a typical short story on the topic of writing about a peaceful new life and building socialism in the North. The short story has a fairly simple plot, focusing only on the chance meeting between the painter, the young engineer and the young man – the main character of the work – on the 2600 meter high Yen Son peak. In the midst of the natural scenery of Sapa, it is as beautiful as a picture.

The poetic quality exudes from that poetic natural scene. Sapa is described from the perspective of a painter. Speaking of Sapa, people will immediately think of a resting, quiet and wonderful place. pretty. Immediately think of the white flower forests, the vast forests under the morning sun, the rolling hills and mountains under the mist covered, terraced fields, romantic love markets… Nature Sa pa under the pen of Nguyen Thanh Long appears equally vivid as real. Nguyen Thanh Long has played the role, has transformed into the painter, borrowed the look of the art of painting, borrowed the colorful prism to paint a nature no less poetic, shimmering, magical, lyrical.

Sa Pa first appeared with the image of “peach trees” and “herds of ancient oxen with bells in the meadows in the valleys on both sides of the road”. That’s right Sapa! Have you noticed yet? As for the painter, he recognized that landscape and then imagined that one day he could return to that place completely. Just that one wish shows that the picture of nature is attractive to people. The most beautiful time is still when the sun is up. In the sunlight, everything seems to come to life. The sunlight makes the picture colorful, making the artist and the engineer also speechless because of the strange beauty of the scene. Coming here, we seem to see the eyes of a filmmaker, shooting very slowly. and a close-up of a landscape painting. The scene was so beautiful, that the cameraman did not dare to pan quickly and seemed to hold his breath for fear that the scene would disappear from view. “The sun is now starting to creep in, burning the forest. The pines were only overhead, fluttering in the sun, their silver fingers under the veiled gaze of the hydrangea, occasionally protruding their lilac heads above the green of the forest. Clouds are blown away by the sun, curl up in lumps, roll on the dew-drenched canopy of leaves, fall on the road, and go under the car.

Obviously the author is featured looking down from above. The space is wide, there are clouds, there is a forest, and even down to the bottom of the car, but it is viewed in one dimension. Still very reasonable. We just imagine, the artist is sitting in the car and the car is lying horizontally with the clouds in the Northwest. That’s why there are clumpy clouds interspersed with the forest foliage. That’s why the drops can be seen. dew on the canopy of leaves, at the same time as the sun’s rays shine on the tops of the pines. Nature is anthropomorphized to life strangely “Sunshine comes”; pine cones fluttering with silver “fingers”; eucalyptus tree with the “covered look” “overflowing oil” ; “Clouds drive away the sun”… The picture shows up with many bright colors, the green of the thousands of silver forests, the purple of the death trees, the white of the sky clouds and the bright yellow of colors. Sunny… The floating, smoky, romantic, cloudy and light-filled scene is the background for a meeting that is also imbued with lyrical and poetic qualities.

The lyrical quality in the story mainly comes from the chance meeting that leaves a lot of aftertaste, from the lovely beauty of the young man, from the stories he tells about his life in the silence of Sa. pa. In a very casual story on a bus ride, through the driver’s narration, the young man appeared as a young man “the loneliest in the world” with a rare “craving for people”. That “craving for people” made him have to push a big tree alone to get in the way of the car, to see a little bit, to talk for a while with people from below. That “craving for people” is not the nostalgia for urban prosperity, the leisurely life below, but the craving for human love, the desire to express feelings. Because even though you have to work alone in a perfect place. It was so harsh, but that person did not feel bored and lonely. Let’s listen to him confide: “When we work, we are a couple, why can’t we call it alone?”. His “craving for people” is the natural truth of a human being, of a guy. young.

Through the artist’s gaze, the young man appeared as a “small boy with a radiant face”. He lives in a clean, three-room house with tables and chairs, books, charts, statistics, walkie-talkies. The young man’s private life is condensed in a corner of the world with a small bed, a study table, and a bookshelf. A neat and orderly life of a person who loves life, is passionate about work, and does not take anything for granted. In addition to the hours of cooking, he raises chickens, grows flowers and reads books. For him, books are friends. That simple life seems simple but to have it is not simple at all. The old painter when he saw the young man in a hurry to rush up to the house when inviting guests to play, had such an idea.

“The guest came to the house unexpectedly, maybe he didn’t have time to sweep, clean, or fold the blanket. . “And the engineer only had time to say ‘oh’!” “After nearly two days, after nearly four hundred kilometers of long distance from Hanoi, standing in the clouds on the same level as the other rainbow, suddenly met the peony, dahlia, yellow, purple, red, and pink flowers. , honeycomb…it’s summer right down there.”Makes the girl forget her shyness.The chance meeting is very natural, making the boy also gentle, spontaneously giving the girl a bouquet of flowers, and the girl also gently accepted. Reading this, I suddenly thought: Is it the lyrical poetic natural scenery that created the background for that poetic and lyrical encounter? Is it the flower bed as colorful as the young man’s colorful feelings that “tempted” the soul of the engineer who had many confidants? Then she opened her heart to receive sincere love from him, a strange man who was as open as a familiar friend who had been separated for a long time. Soft and seductive. That glaze keeps silvering people’s hearts, until the end of the breakup. Then the girl left her heart with the handkerchief, and then the boy did not understand, accidentally returned it… All could not pass through the eyes of the artist. Or all are seen through the lens of an artist, so it’s so romantic, so poetic. Something fleeting, something smoky that still leaves a lasting echo in people’s hearts. Sometimes these seemingly small things have the power to change a view, change a way of thinking, change a concept of life.

With the sincere and open affection of the young man, with the tubers sent to the driver’s wife, with the chicken egg sent to the guest when leaving the house and with a bouquet of flowers for the girl… all are just dishes. Small gifts, gifts of the spirit, yet we still see how valuable it is. It is the passionate, enthusiastic, sincere, open and responsible lifestyle of the young man that makes the artist look at him with a different eye, look at himself with a different light. another look. He felt that he had come across a portrait of life, he wanted to record it. The appearance of a young man with a radiant face may not have been difficult for the artist to draw, but the young man made him want to redraw a spiritual portrait of him. It was he who made him think differently about life in terms of art. It is difficult to draw all that feels about the young man. The artist feels “too hard”.

It was the young man’s humanity that made the driver stop the car every time he reached the pass. Uncle stopped probably not only because of the cups of fresh tea, probably not just because he wanted to give him books but because he loved a person, a quiet soul. The engineer, left the handkerchief not because she initially had any special feelings for the young man, but because it was the young man’s life that changed her thinking about people about her ideal life. young man, she wanted to leave something to remember for this meeting. “She held out her hand for him to hold, carefully, clearly as if people were giving each other something, not a handshake.” She learned many things about life from the young man. And the old artist was also really emotional when parting. Grabbed the young man’s hand and said: “I’ll definitely be back. I’ll stay with you for a few days okay!” It was the young man who changed the mind of the old artist. It is his youthful life, his ideal of self-sacrifice that has made the painter have a different view of Sapa and an artistic point of view. He will return to Sapa not to rest and recuperate as he said to the original driver, but to do something useful for this life. He felt that Sapa is not only a place to rest and recuperate, but there are also many people who work and devote silently to life.

It can be said that the Tale of Quiet Sa Pa has the appearance of a poem, the poetic quality is silver in the whole story, from the mountainous landscape to the image of people living and working in silence but not alone. , because of their attachment to the country, to everyone. If coming to “The cold wind at the beginning of the season of Thach Lam, readers can feel the lyrical substance exuding from the warm human love of Son boy and old breast. , of Son’s mother through loving and warm gestures of humanity in the cold windy season, coming to “Quietly sapa of Nguyen Thanh Long, we feel the same warm human love through a chance meeting and surprise among the people in the attractive place that seemed to only have mountains and hills, and was quiet. We came across images of people just fleeting, leaving no names, hometowns, only knowing they were you. young man, an engineer who specializes in researching vegetable gardens to pollinate kohlrabi, a lightning cartographer… They live and work quietly, quietly without being boring. Their passion for labor, enthusiasm in their way of life, their love for people, and their love for nature have left readers with many thoughts and concerns about life. Their lifestyle makes me think. to the philosophical and familiar lyrics in the song “One life, one forest” by author Tran Long An: “Everybody chooses light work. Whose part will hardship take? Everyone, once a young man, often thinks about their own life.”

The story has succeeded in building a reasonable, natural but surprising situation, in a simple story-telling, in describing people and scenes from many points of view. Here we see two characters who often reflect, often look at the main character – two characters representing two generations, two different ways of thinking. Then the character portraits were gradually portrayed. The language of painting and lyricism is also one of the successes of the fairy tale.

Sa Pa is “quiet” but leaves a lot of echoes. Sa Pa is quiet but lyrical and romantic. Sapa is quiet but not lonely and lonely. Because here, there are still many people today. Silent night silently dedicate your youth, wisdom and passion to work for the country, for life.Do ordinary things with an extraordinary faith! Passion for labor will bring you moments of sublimation. It is the passion for creativity that Nguyen Thanh Long has brought to us a lyrical writing.

It can be said that the outstanding and unique feature of Nguyen Thanh Long’s works is always creating beautiful images and stories rich in lyricism and poetry. And poetry is one of the unique values ​​in the short story Quietly Sa Pa, which is vividly expressed in terms of both content and art form.

First of all, the poetry in the work is expressed in the beauty of nature, specifically the mountains and forests of Sa Pa. In the story, following the bus that took the old painter and the young engineer to Sa Pa, the author leads the reader to the mountainous spaces of the Northwest with wild and poetic beauty: “The clouds cast off each white fan. up from the valleys… The sun was starting to come up now, burning the trees. The pines were only overhead, fluttering well in the sun, silver fingers under the veiled gaze of the lilac trees that occasionally protruded their lilac heads above the green of the forest. Clouds are blown away by the sun, curl up in lumps, roll on the dew-wet leaf arches, fall on the road, even under the car. And at the end of the fairy tale, when the painter and the engineer said goodbye to Sa Pa, the scenery of the mountains and forests was described again: “At that time, the sun had silvered the whole pass, burning the forest fiercely. like a big torch. The sunlight makes the bouquet even more brilliant and makes the girl feel more radiant. The author does not describe much, but only with breakthrough strokes, through clear words, rich in images, language such as lines, shapes, colors, and natural scenery of Sa Pa appear impressive with the beauty of nature. young, friendly. This poetic setting acts as a backdrop for a poetic story, a catalyst and a fulcrum for the poetry in the story to be sublimated.

The poetry in Quietly Sa Pa is prominently shown through the beauty of the people and their simple yet touching stories. In the story, there is no villain. All appear with their own beauties. An old painter with a genuine desire for art, a young engineer with an ideal of dedicating youth, a driver with more than 30 years of hard work, a Sa Pa vegetable garden engineer dedicated to his work, Mr. Lightning researchers sacrificed their own happiness for their passion for science, their colleague on the top of Fansipan quietly devoted themselves to the community… It seems that the characters of Quietly Sa Pa all appeared with radiant beauty in soul and way of life. Not only are they passionate and wholehearted in their work, they also know how to sacrifice their personal happiness for the ideal of building and enriching the country. Although it is quiet and idyllic (most of the characters have no names – this is an artistic intention of the author) but their personalities and souls still shine with human beauty.

Prominent in the story is the image of a young man. This is the image that focuses on the beauty of the people in the story. Through the driver’s narration, the recognition and evaluation of the young artist and engineer, especially, through his own language and actions, the young man’s character appears in the story with beautiful beauty. own: Having an orderly, scientific and poetic lifestyle (“a clean, three-room house, with tables and chairs, books, charts, statistics, walkie-talkie”), do not feel lonely because there are the joy of planting flowers, reading books); love the job, be dedicated, responsible and always find joy in work (“when we work, we are a couple, how can it be called alone? How much more than that your work is associated with mine. how many brothers and sisters down there. My job is so hard, but put it away, I’m sad to death”); sincere, open, thoughtful and caring for others (giving tam ventricular tubers for his wife to drive for treatment, being happy when guests come to visit, welcoming guests warmly, nostalgia, giving gifts when parting) , honest, humble (consider his own contribution small compared to others, refuses to be painted and introduce people who are more deserving than him). It can be said that, appearing with simple, ordinary and noble beauty, the young man is the typical image of “quiet” people in the middle of “Sa Pa”, a portrait of working people. new era in the new era is contributing to the construction and defense of the country. His soul, way of life, each story about his work are like poems with imbued human beauty. The poetry in the story radiates from the image of this character.

Not only in terms of content, the poetry in Quietly Sa Pa is also vividly expressed in many aspects of form. The general impression of readers about the work is that the story is light-hearted with a simple plot, not complicated details, and the story’s development is not too dramatic. Although sometimes exciting, but mostly the story still has a slow, deliberate tone. In particular, the story has a layer of clear, expressive language and images with expressions such as: Using a lot of words indicating colors (white waterfall, clouds reflecting each white fan, looming in the blue cover) la, a golden trident, silver fingers, protruding the lilac-green head of the forest, he just blushed, standing in the mist on the same level as the other rainbow, the peony, the dahlia , yellow, purple, red, pink, honeycomb…); use a lot of slurs (quietly, loosely, faintly, easily, gently, confusedly, small, clean, toe toe, softly, hi hi, squirming, stunned, deserted, spouting. , wonder, brilliant,…); uses a lot of rhetorical comparisons (it’s like a gnawing zodiac, it’s like being cut into pieces, brothers and sisters are like butterflies, …).

It can be said that the poetic language class is one of the important aspects that make up the poetry throughout the entire work, creating a unique feature in the writing style of writer Nguyen Thanh Long.