Reference #4
Chinh Huu is a soldier and also a soldier’s poet. His poems are not many but impressed by the concise lyrics, language, realistic images but rich in symbolic meanings. “Comrade” is a typical work of the poet. The poem has highlighted the beauty of the comradeship of the revolutionary soldiers in the early years of the resistance against the French.
The poem “Comrade” was written by Chinh Huu in 1948 during the early period of the arduous and difficult resistance war against the French. After the Viet Bac campaign in 1947, Chinh Huu became seriously ill and had to stay at a military medical station, the unit sent someone to stay and take care of him. Touched by the affection of his teammates, Chinh Huu wrote the poem. The poem depicts the image of a revolutionary soldier, thereby highlighting the beauty of their close comradeship.
First of all, the beauty of comradeship is shown on the basis of forming comradeship. The first basis to form a comradeship is from the same background – they are all farmers wearing soldiers’ uniforms:
“My hometown is salty and sour water
My village is poor rocky soil plowed up”
The lyrics are as natural as the soldier’s narration about his homeland: he came up from the lowland “salty water and sour fields”, I came out from the “plowed land up to the rocks” – the midland and mountainous region. Your hometown, my village – two rural areas far from each other, but all share the same poverty and flood. The creative use of proverbs has created a simple and natural poem like the soul of a young man talking about his homeland. Thus, the soldiers all came from poor villages, they were all peasants wearing military uniforms. It is the same situation, the same class that has created a solid initial basis for the formation of comradeship.
The second basis for forming comradeship is the common task, the same ideal. He and I from four strange lands, without an appointment, gathered here in the army of the revolutionary flag because: “The gun is next to the gun next to the head”. The verse has a realistic image but rich in symbolic meaning: “gun with gun” is the same task of holding a gun to fight. “Head-to-head” is the same direction, the ideal of leaving according to the call of the Fatherland, determined to fight to protect national independence. The same mission, the same ideals brought my brother together.
Comradeship is also formed from sharing and sticking in hardships:
“Cold nights together make a pair of soulmates”
The verse is full of memories of a difficult time: on cold winter nights, blankets were not enough, they had to share a thin blanket. The sui blanket closes the cold winter night but opens up the attachment to understand each other like a soul mate. The structure he – I wave sometimes in two verses, when merged into one, describes the process from strangers, acquaintances, then soulmates and concluding: “Comrade”. The seventh verse with only two words and the exclamation mark sounded like a note, expressing the discovery of a simple, yet sacred, new feeling of the revolutionary soldiers: comrades. The verse as the hinge of the poem both generalizes the emotions in the first six verses and opens up the expressions in the following lines. At the same time highlighting an inevitable rule: the same background, the same ideal mission, the same attachment, they will become each other’s comrades.
The beauty of comradeship is also reflected in specific expressions of comradeship. The first manifestation of comradeship is that they understand each other’s thoughts and feelings:
“The fields I send my best friend to plow
The house does not let the wind shake
The original well was sent to the army.”
The soldiers left behind all that is most familiar: fields, houses, wells, banyan trees. The word “let alone” has shown the attitude of resolute determination to leave for a great cause. Ignore it without any indifference: they left, but deep down the soldiers still remember their homeland, they still know that in their homeland, the fields are still waiting for the plowman’s hand, the house is shaking in the wind waiting for someone to fix it. where the original well has the eyes of relatives looking forward to it. In particular, the metaphorical anthropomorphic image “The original well remembers the soldier” has shown that the homeland still remembers the boy who plowed into the war or the one who went to the war still remembers his homeland. Two-way nostalgia becomes more intense. In the poem “he – I” structure, the wave is now only him: the nostalgia for the homeland in his heart is spoken by me. I told him it was also my nostalgia for my hometown. The soldiers they understood each other’s feelings.
The comradeship is also shown in the sharing and attachment in the hardships of the soldier’s life. He and I also suffered from the fevers that once tormented us:
“You and I know every chill
Fever shivers, forehead wet with sweat.”
Malaria used to become a common disease for soldiers in the early years of the resistance against the French who ate poorly and lacked medicine. Chinh Huu described truthfully: “knowing chills”, “fever shivering, forehead wet with sweat”. You and I share the same poverty:
“Your shirt is torn at the shoulder
My pants have some patches
Shoeless”
Chinh Huu has included in his poems true images of the fighting life of revolutionary soldiers in the early years of the resistance war against the French, who were deprived of everything from food to personal belongings. From there, the reader has a more in-depth look at the soldier. The structure “he – I” is double wave as affirming that in all hardships and difficulties, he has me and me to share and stick with.
In the midst of hardships, the revolutionary soldier appeared still proud and optimistic. In difficult times, they still smile – warm, optimistic smiles that dispel the cold. Especially the image “Love each other hand in hand” is very natural and true but has deeply moved the revolutionary soldier’s comradeship. They held each other’s hands as if to encourage each other, as if to transmit to each other the warmth of the strength of comradeship so that together they could be sure to fight to protect the Fatherland. Is comradeship both the beauty and source of strength of a revolutionary soldier?
Not only that, the beauty of comradeship in the poem is also reflected in the beautiful symbol of comradeship. With realistic style combined with romantic inspiration, the last three verses evoke a beautiful picture of a late night street scene:
“Tonight, the misty wild forest
Standing side by side waiting for the enemy to come.”
On the background of harsh reality: late at night, where the “wild forest of hoarfrost” was cold, the soldier appeared with an active posture “standing side by side waiting for the enemy to come”. It is the posture of the iron wall that has overshadowed all the hardships. Was it the comradeship that made up the soldier’s beauty? The image of the soldier is condensed through unexpected and unique details:
“Moon Gun Head Hanging”
The “hanging moon gun” was recognized by Chinh Huu from the nights of his and his teammates’ ambush operations. In the midst of the vastness of the late night forest, the soldier stood guard with his gun pointed up to the sky. The moon hovers in the air, the more late it gets, the lower the moon descends, to a certain extent looking up at the moon is like hanging from a gun. The image of “moon gun head hanging” also evokes many interesting associations for readers: “gun” is a symbol of war, of reality, of warrior quality; “moon” is a symbol of peace, of romance, of poetic quality. The combination of two seemingly opposite images but harmoniously complement each other to talk about the aspects of soldiers and comradeship: both soldier and poetic, realistic yet romantic. romantic. The image of the “hanging moon gun” also speaks to the noble meaning of the resistance war: a soldier holding a gun fights to protect peace for his homeland and country. The 2/2 verse seems to evoke the shaking of something suspended in the middle of the vast expanse, but cannot be tied. In the midst of the harsh reality, the soldiers’ souls are still romantic and soaring because they have a warm comradeship in their hearts. Therefore, “Moon-hanging gun head” has become the symbol of the revolutionary soldier in the resistance literature and was chosen by Chinh Huu as the title of his famous poetry collection.
The poem has highlighted the beauty of comradeship through unique artistic features. It is a free verse form that matches the natural repressed emotions of the poem. Realistic visual language that is rich in symbolic meaning. The double wave “you – I” structure has contributed to expressing the work’s theme ideas. The poem also uses a combination of rhetorical measures: personification, metaphor, etc. With these artistic features, the poem praises the close comradeship of the revolutionary soldier. in the early years of the war against the French. The poem has shown the poet’s attachment, deep understanding and respect for his teammates. Along with other works such as “Tay Tien” by Quang Dung, “Remember” by Hong Nguyen,… “Comrade” by Chinh Huu has contributed to enriching the image of soldier Uncle Ho in modern poetry. . The poem has opened a new direction for resistance literature about revolutionary soldiers: poetic inspiration comes from everyday reality but still overflows with romance.
With realistic style combined with romantic inspiration, realistic language and evocative images, the poem highlights the beauty of the comradeship of revolutionary soldiers in the early years of the resistance against the French. . The poem gave readers a true feeling about the revolutionary soldier during the years of resistance against the French. That is why the poem has a life forever in the hearts of readers.
Reference #2
The peasant soldier, naturally, has entered many poems in Vietnamese literature. Their images appear so simple and close as Hong Nguyen’s Me, To Huu’s Water Fish, etc. and also in that common thread, we can’t help but mention Chinh Huu’s Comrade. The poem is a song praising the sincere and profound feelings of comrades and comrades in the fierce war situation.
Like so many poems written about other peasant soldiers, reading the verse we can feel their worries and hardships, their poor and hard lives:
My hometown is salty and sour water
My village is poor rocky soil plowed up
They from all parts of the country gather here, people in the saltwater plains and sour fields, people in the midlands plowing up stones, even in any countryside, they all show difficulties and hardships. But they all have one thing in common: they go to war to protect their homeland. From you and me to the third verse, there has been a strong transformation into a couple. Not two but a couple, showing that they have begun to have a bond between them. They come here together, voluntarily together: “The gun is next to the head / close to the head / Cold night, the blanket is a pair of soulmates”. They not only stood shoulder to shoulder in battle, in their ideals, but they were also together in the difficulties and hardships of a life of battle. The cold of the Viet Bac mountains and forests can cool their bodies, but it makes the soldiers’ feelings warmer and more intense. The verse talks about the cold, the cold that the reader absolutely does not feel the bone-chilling cold, only sees a warm feeling of human love, of comradeship, of sharing difficulties with each other. The two words of soul mate are sacred, worthy of respect, they no longer stop at the couple like when they first met, but go through hardships and share with each other everything they have become a soulmate, understanding. each other as self-understanding. The seventh verse: Comrade, resounding is the most beautiful crystallization of that sacred sentiment. If not including the title, this is the only time this word appears in the poem, the verse has an important position, hinges on opening and closing the two main lines of the poem. The first six verses are the foundation, the basis for coming here to be elevated to a new and profound feeling: comradeship. Comrades here are not only people who stick with, love and care for each other, but they also have a common purpose, ideal, and will to strive. Therefore, the two hours of comrades become even more noble and worthy of respect.
In the following verses, the feelings of comrades and comrades are depicted more specifically and clearly. They – the children of their homeland, even though they carry in them the will of determination, the decisive attitude to ignore everything, send back their families and fields to fight, but in their hearts they still do not stop feeling anxious and remembering. velvet about family. The images of wells and banyan trees are the closest and dearest images to them, so they always remember them. That nostalgia is also the nostalgia for the family, for the father and mother who are at home every day waiting for their children. Under the same circuTaxances, the soldiers had a deep sympathy for each other. They sympathize, understand with sincere feelings.
The image of home, along with understanding and sympathy among teammates, is the source of energy to encourage them to overcome all difficulties and challenges:
You and I know every chill
Fever shivers, forehead wet with sweat
My shirt is torn at the shoulder
My pants have some patches
Frozen smile
Shoeless
Several injured hand grip
The verse once again depicts the reality of the arduous and fierce war in which many soldiers had to die in a foreign land. They lacked all kinds of material things: no shoes, torn shirts, patched pants. But they can overcome all that cruel reality with a warm handshake, it’s like the handshake through the broken glass of soldiers driving cars in Pham Tien Duat’s poetry. Just a handshake brings great strength to the soldiers, so that they can firmly believe and protect the country:
Wild forest with hoarfrost tonight
Standing side by side waiting for the enemy to come
Moon gun head hanging.
The last three verses can be considered as the most beautiful picture of comrades and comrades about a soldier. Against the background of fierce reality, cold wilderness, the soldiers are calm, proactive, proud, holding the gun ready to fight to protect the homeland. The last verse is a beautiful and romantic poetic image, it is a symbol of a soldier who is both heroic and resilient, but still has poetic, lyrical features, a dreamy soul amidst the reality of war. dire. This is also the new and unique lyrical beauty of the poetry of the resistance period that was skillfully used by Chinh Huu through the image of the moon and guns without being restrictive or forced.
The whole poem exudes the image of Uncle Ho, a soldier who is simple and honest. Readers can also feel a deep sense of camaraderie between those comrades and comrades. It is comradeship, sympathy and understanding with each other that is the driving force that helps them overcome the harsh reality. Combined with simple language, rich in evocative, and conspicuous, all of these factors have caused a deep obsession in the hearts of readers.
Reference #3
Chinh Huu is a poet who grew up in the army. Although his poems are not many, he often writes about soldiers and war with many pent-up emotions, both simple and passionate. One of his most representative works is the poem “Comrade”. The poem carries the beauty of simple, rustic but profound comradeship and comradeship of the revolutionary soldiers during the arduous days of the resistance war. Standing in the ranks of the revolution, fighting for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland, the soldier overcomes all hardships with sharing and solidarity. They live in comradeship, noble teammates, thanks to teammates, for teammates…
At the beginning of the poem, we encounter a simple introduction such as greetings, greetings and getting to know each other in the first meeting:
“My hometown is salty water, sour fields
My village is poor rocky soil plowed up
He sometimes strangers to me
By nature, we do not meet each other.”
Those comrades are usually farmers wearing military uniforms, the similarity in background helps them to easily get close and empathize with each other. “You and I” come from different rural areas, only similar because of the poverty of the land and fields. He is from the coastal countryside “salty water and sour fields”, I live in the high land “the land is plowed on gravel”. The image of “his hometown” and “my village” appeared with many hardships and hardships. Although the poet did not pay attention to the description, that is what makes the image that is just a common noun become so specific that it can be seen, especially in the eyes of the Vietnamese villagers. . Folk idioms are used very naturally by the author, so that readers can easily imagine the poor villages, where brave soldiers were born. When they hear the sacred call of the Fatherland, they are ready to leave and quickly join the army fighting to defend the Fatherland.
Before enlistment, these people were very strange. They understand each other, love each other, and befriend each other with the long-standing mutual love and affection between workers. But they know each other not because of poverty, but they know each other to stand in the same team because they have a common ideal, the same noble purpose of fighting and defending the Fatherland. The image of him and me as separate was blurred, the image of the couple showed their similar attachment in mission and fighting ideals:
“Gun next to gun, head to head
A cold night with a blanket becomes a trilogy
Comrades”
The words “gun” and “head” are repeated twice as emphasizing the comrade’s attachment in combat. That love has blossomed firmly in harmony, sharing all the hardships as well as joy and happiness. It is the confidant love of the best friends that the author expresses in a very specific, simple but very sexy image: “Cold night together as a pair of soulmates”. It was in those difficult and needy days that the word “stranger” became each other’s “best friends”. Hard work and dangers have connected the comrades, making them close and soul mates. The poems are simple but very profound, as if distilled from life, from the life of a soldier full of hardships, so that how much love has been shown through images that are both close and emotional. that concise. Chinh Huu was once a soldier, spent his life as a soldier, so his simple verse has the weight of affectionate and loving feelings for his comrades.
From the bottom of their hearts, suddenly uttered two words “comrades” so concise and sacred. The word “comrade” is like a special note with different expressive nuances, emphasizing the great sacredness in comradeship and comradeship. That love has to go through many difficulties, challenges, and be forged in hardship to be truly sustainable. “You” and “I” have become a solid, united block. Thus, in comradeship, there is class affection, soulmate friendship, and attachment between people who share the same ideals and battle goals. And when they called each other “comrades”, they were not only poor and poor farmers, but they became brothers in an entire community with a noble ideal for the sake of the country. victory for the nation. The verse has only two words as if it were to contain and repress the deep emotions from the previous six verses and start the next thoughts.
By using the symmetrical, double wave structure “your hometown” – “my village”, the idioms “salty water and sour fields”, “the land is plowed into stones”, the real image has many symbolic meanings, seven sentences The first poem has expressed the similarity about the background situation, about the noble ideals, about the combat mission. It was these similarities that became the sympathy, the basis for the soldier’s comradeship and comradeship.
Not only stopping at the comradeship and comradeship with the facilities that make it up, the author also talks about understanding and sharing the thoughts and feelings of a soldier’s life.
“The fields I send my best friend to plow
The house does not let the wind shake
Most original water well miss out soldiers”
They are the soldiers who guard their own love, leaving for a great cause, leaving behind their homeland with worries and concerns. From the verses about the family background, about the situation, we see a great change in the soldier’s conception. “The fields” are temporarily sent to “close friends to plow”, “the house is empty” to “ignore the wind to shake”. On the way to fight, the soldier accepted the sacrifice, temporarily setting aside his personal plans. The two words “let it go” have shown the determination, decisiveness and strength of the soldier. But despite being so decisive and resolute, the soldiers are still deeply devoted to their homeland because that is the place where they were born and nurtured their souls – honest and simple peasant soldiers. The anthropomorphic metonymy image: “The well of water, the root misses the soldier” even more emphasizing the soldier’s attachment and love for his homeland, it helps the soldier express in an innocent and delicate way. own soul.
Three verses with images: fields, houses, wells, banyan roots, each image is so dear, filled with love for the homeland with so much nostalgia. The anthropomorphic metonymy image highlights the thoughts and nostalgia of comrades. Referring to that painful nostalgia, Chinh Huu talked about the soldier’s not-so-easy sacrifice. However, they still understand and share with each other. The comradeship was strengthened by the love of the homeland, the camaraderie and suffering, and the sharing of the hardships and deprivations of a soldier’s life.
“You and I know every chill
Shivering fever, sweaty forehead
My shirt is torn at the shoulder
My pants have some patches
Frozen smile
Shoeless
Several injured hand grip”
As soldiers, you have experienced malaria in the deep forest in the absence of medicine, and more clothes in the middle of the cold winter. All difficulties and hardships are reproduced in very realistic details, without the slightest bit of paint because in the early days of the resistance war, the newly established Uncle Ho’s army lacked all aspects and difficulties. hundred roads. But despite such difficulties, they still maintain their will, determination and firm courage to guard and fight for their beloved Motherland.
The detail “frozen mouth” warmed up, brightened up the camaraderie and optimism of the soldier. The gesture of “love each other, hold hands” has shown a deep love for teammates. That way of expressing love is not noisy, but it is poignant. That handshake is like the handshakes through the broken glass of the boys of the glassless car squad during the anti-American era. Although it is just a small handshake or handshake, it contains a sacred symbol. That handshake has instilled in the soldiers faith and strength to overcome everything. The poet has very well discovered the spiritual strength hidden deep in the soldier’s heart. That spiritual strength, on the basis of mutual sympathy and deep understanding, has created the depth and stability of this silent but very sacred sentiment.
Coming to the last three verses, we find a beautiful picture of comradeship:
“Tonight the misty wild forest
Standing side by side waiting for the enemy to come
Hanging Moon Gun”
Three verses describe a night ambush the enemy in a dark, desolate and cold space: “wild forest of hoarfrost”. Not only the wind and cold kept chasing them, but also many dangers were lurking for the soldier. Prominent against that harsh reality are the soldiers who “stand side by side waiting for the enemy to come”, a place where life and death are only a short distance away. The word “waiting” here also clearly shows their proud, confident, ready, and proactive posture to fight the enemy. And then, the stature of those soldiers became even greater.
The last verse is a beautiful image recognized from the soldiers’ own nights of ambush operations. Late at night, the moon in the high sky had swooped lower and lower, in a certain position, the moon seemed to hang on the tip of the gun of a soldier waiting for the enemy to ambush. The warm and sacred comradeship has brought the soldier romance and poetic inspiration in the harsh reality through the image of the “hanging moon gun head”. In the midst of extreme hardship and suffering: cold winter nights, misty forests, and near death, the soul of a soldier still finds poetry in the unexpected beauty of the moon. The word “hang” creates a unique unexpected relationship, connecting two distant objects – the earth and the sky, evoking interesting, unexpected associations. “Gun” is a symbol of battle, “moon” is a symbol of peace. Guns and moons are false and real, warriors and poets, a pair that highlight the beauty of comrades standing side by side. It was the comradeship that made the soldiers feel that life was still beautiful and poetic, giving them fighting strength and the belief of victory. This is an unexpected creation, contributing to enhancing the value of the poem, creating deep resonances in the hearts of readers. This is also a testament to Chinh Huu’s realistic and romantic writing style.
Thus, the comradeship in the poem is the noble and sacred sentiment of the people who are attached to the mountain in the great struggle of the nation. That sentiment is formed on the basis of love for the motherland, country, common ideals and fighting goals. The arduous and fierce combat conditions have been tempered and tested, making the soldier’s comradeship and comradeship stronger and stronger. That sacred sentiment helped the soldiers overcome all difficulties, hardships and deprivations of the soldier’s life, as a fulcrum to create a heroic victory for the nation.
By using idioms, structures, symbolic images of double waves, anthropomorphic metonymy, realistic and romantic styles, “Comrade” has shown and highlighted the love of each other. The noble and beautiful comrades were both simple and sacred and poetic of the soldiers of Uncle Ho. This also shows the excellence of Chinh Huu when writing on the topic of soldiers and war.
Reference #5
Chinh Huu is a military poet who grew up in the two resistance wars against the French and the Americans. His poetry has a thickness of time, a high level of emotion, rich in realism and beauty of Revolutionary soldiers in the resistance war. Chinh Huu wrote not much, but his works were breathed by the times, including the poem “Comrade” composed in 1948. The image of Uncle Ho’s soldier with simple and primitive beauty but has a spiritual life, a noble purpose and ideal, especially a sacred and intimate comradeship and comradeship.
The poem is made in free verse form, 20 lines of poetry with simple language, whispering tone, sentiments, pent-up emotions, glowing poetic images, many verses that leave an impression in your heart. read. At the beginning of the poem is the image of two young soldiers holding their heads together, telling a love story:
“My hometown is salty and sour water
My village is poor rocky soil plowed up”
Two impressive poems about the lands of life full of hardships and hardships. The way of speaking is condensed, clearly depicting the poor countryside of the soldiers. They come from different rural areas but share the same hunger and poverty. Ordinary words that seem to be stirring like real life have poured into the words, bringing deep feelings about the background and hometown of the soldiers. The Fatherland called the brothers to go, they did not make an appointment but met on the battlefield. Here, you share the same ideals, the mission of fighting to protect the Fatherland:
“Gun next to gun, head to head”
First love blooms firmly in harmony, sharing all the hardships and joys, it is the soulmate love of the best friends that the author expresses with a very specific and simple image that Very sexy:
“Cold nights together make a couple of soulmates”
Viet Bac night is too cold, blanket is too small, struggling forever not warm enough. If you can put a blanket on, your head will be open, you can cover one side and the other side will be open. In those days of deprivation, the word “stranger” became “best friend”.
“Souls” are close friends who understand each other well. Hard work and danger have connected the soldiers to become close friends. Chinh Huu was once a soldier, having lived a soldier’s life, so this simple verse has the weight of affection, affection, and love for comrades. The image is so simple but so touching.
From the heart, they suddenly uttered two words “Comrade!”, put in a short but resonant line of poetry, simple but sacred. “Comrade” with the exclamation mark as a special note brings different expressions that are both new and sacred. Comrades are like-minded, have the same purpose, are soulmates but tested, I forged in hardship. Thus, in comradeship, there is also class love, friendship, confidant love, national love of those who sacrificed themselves for the country to create a revival for the homeland and the nation. The verse has only two words, but it contains pent-up deep emotions from the previous 6 verses and the beginning of the next thoughts.
From the basis of forming comradeship, the noble and emotional expressions in the following sentences, Chinh Huu is more specific than the beauty of comradeship and sacred comradeship. Comrades first of all understand and share each other’s thoughts and feelings:
“The fields I send my best friend to plow
The house does not let the wind shake
Most original water well miss out soldiers”
The two words “regardless” have described the spirit of love and affection of the peasant soldiers in Nguyen Dinh Chieu’s poetry, the spirit of “Depart without a wife” of the old men, and the spirit of “Determined to die” for the Fatherland to decide to live” of those who defended the capital on the first day of resistance against the French. But when placed next to “The house is empty” and “The wind is shaking”, something is so touching. Soldiers don’t completely “let go” like a weapon. That is sacrifice. Sacrificing things attached to protect the homeland. A simple sacrifice that touches people’s hearts.
Experiencing the hard days of the resistance war, the heroic qualities of the peasants wore soldiers’ uniforms. The realistic view helped the poet to record the true features of the soldier’s combat life:
“You and I know every chill
Fever, sweaty forehead
My shirt is torn at the shoulder
My pants have some patches
Frozen smile
Shoeless
Several injured hand grip”
Chinh Huu also recorded images of brave soldiers rising firmly on their positions. The monument at the end of the poem:
“Tonight the misty wild forest
Standing side by side waiting for the enemy to come
The moon gun head hangs.”
The three verses are a beautiful picture of a soldier’s comradeship and comradeship, a beautiful symbol of a soldier’s life. The strength of their camaraderie helped them overcome all the extremes of the weather. The image of “Moon gun head hanging” is the best image because it is both a realistic image and a symbolic image. The four words have the rhythm of something dangling in the vastness. Throughout the night the moon was lower and lower and sometimes hung on the base of the gun. The nights of ambush waiting for the enemy, the moon was like a close and close friend. “Gun” and “moon” evoke many interesting associations. “Gun” symbolizes battle, “moon” symbolizes poetic, pure, high and eternal beauty. “Guns” and “moons,” near and far, reality and dreams, warriors and poets, combative and lyrical. This image symbolizes the pure feelings of a soldier. The comradeship is blossoming, rising from a life of war.
Comradeship is like the convergence and concentration of all the emotions and qualities of simple and noble soldiers. Challenging hardships make comradeship more profound. On the contrary, comradeship gives the soldier the strength to overcome all difficulties
Reference #1
Chinh Huu is a very famous poet who writes about soldiers and war. His works are highly appreciated and very successful. In the poem “Comrade”, Chinh Huu has successfully portrayed the gentle nature, the simple yet simple friendship as well as the comradeship and comradeship…
The history of our country has gone through many ups and downs. Every upheaval is each time our people get closer together, together for a common noble purpose. Those were the heroic years, the spirit of our nation in the great struggle against France and the United States. Amidst the sufferings of battle, the war also contributed to building the relationship between soldiers. So it is not difficult to understand when in 1948, the work “Comrade” by poet Chinh Huu created an explosion, spreading widely in the military world. The poem praises the arduous comradeship, the birth and death of Uncle Ho’s soldiers, patriotic peasants who fought in the army during the arduous first years of the nine-year resistance war against the French. The poem itself has aroused strong emotions in the hearts of many generations. Chinh Huu has successfully portrayed the gentle nature, the simple yet simple affection as well as the noble spiritual comradeship and comradeship of the peasant soldiers in cloth clothes. From every countryside in the homeland, strange people suddenly stood up to the call of the Fatherland, gathered together, became a new person: a soldier. They are farmers from the countryside, living in poverty, all year round knowing only the field buffalo, they left their homeland to fight:
“My hometown is salty and sour water
My village is poor rocky soil plowed up”
Without an appointment, the brothers met at a point of love for the country. From “strangers” to “soulmates”, then to “comrades”. The verse transforms 7, 8 words and then retracts, compresses down to 2 words, the emotions of the poem seem to be gathering and compacting. The first days of standing under the military flag: “You and I are a couple of strangers – From the heavens we don’t meet each other.” The couple bonded together with many beautiful memories:
“The gun on the side of the gun is next to the head
A cold night with a blanket to become a soulmate
Comrades!”
Day by day the same task of fighting shoulder to shoulder, gun by gun, sharing hardships and dangers, sharing a blanket to bear the cold at night. Putting a blanket together becomes a symbol of friendship and warmth. The common things have turned distant people into soul mates. Similarity, empathy and understanding are the basis, the root to make friendship and comradeship.
Their hearts for the country were so touching that when the enemy came, they sent their best friend the unplowed fields, ignoring the houses that were shaken by the wind to go out to fight. That’s normal, but without a deep love of the country, it is impossible to have such an attitude of leaving.
“The fields I send my best friend to plow
The house is empty, let the wind shake”
They stand up to fight for just one simple reason: patriotism. Love for the country, national consciousness is their flesh and blood, their life, so farmers or intellectuals who only hear the pain of their homeland, they will leave everything behind, the fields and villages. Only when in the resistance war, the peasant soldier in cloth clothes turned back, his heart was preoccupied with worries about the unplowed field and the house being shaken by the wind. Your nostalgia is like that: specific but so moving. The soldier always understands that in his hometown his old mother, young wife and young children are waiting for him to return:
“Most original water well miss out soldiers.”
In those souls, the departure must be as simple as everyday life, but actually it is a noble sacrifice. The whole life of the father, attached to his homeland, the fields and gardens, now he is gone as well as giving up half of his life.
Living with gratitude, kindness, or concern is also a noble quality of a peasant soldier. For them, overcoming the hardships and deprivations of life is a simple thing, nothing extraordinary.
“You and I know every chill,
Fever, shivering, sweaty forehead.
My shirt is torn at the shoulder
My pants have some patches
Frozen smile
Shoeless
Several injured hand grip!”
Chinh Huu portrayed the difficult reality that soldiers encountered. Faced with these difficulties, the soldiers were not afraid at all, the challenges in the middle of the sacred forest and poisonous water kept coming, but the soldier still stood firm, still smiling “cry mouth”. It is a picture of optimism, love of life or simple encouragement of soldiers together. The verses are almost very simple, but they have a profound impact on our readers’ hearts. However, from the ordinary, the image of a soldier of Righteousness still reflects the brilliant beauty of the ideal, ready to be. willing to sacrifice for the Fatherland, courageously optimistic in the face of dangers lurking enemies:
“Tonight the misty wild forest
Standing side by side waiting for the laundry to arrive
The moon gun head hangs.”
What a simple, poetic picture of a soldier on a night waiting for the enemy to arrive in the middle of the misty forest. The soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder, side by side, aiming their guns at the enemy. In the vast silence of the forest late at night, the moon suddenly appeared and hovered at the top of the gun. The peasant soldiers now appear with a different posture, like poetic artists, simple but still strangely beautiful.
It would be a huge omission to mention too much about the image of a soldier without talking about the comradeship and comradeship of the soldier in the poem. Getting to know each other, the soldiers understood that they shared the same homeland, hardship, poverty, class love, common ideals and battle goals. It is this common that is like a durable glue that connects the lives of soldiers together to create two emotional and sacred “comrades”.
“My hometown is salty and sour water
My village is poor rocky soil plowed up”
The beauty of the soldier’s soul not only emanates from the difficult and dangerous realities but also comes from the shimmering light, which is the camaraderie. Crossing the forest is not easy! The monstrous diseases, the cold, bone-chilling nights, the material shortages of the hastily built army. But the soldiers made it through together. They take care of each other for each fever, each piece of torn shirt, patched pants. For them, taking care of their teammates is like taking care of themselves. Oh, how warm is the handshake of teammates in difficult times. The grip of the hand transmits warmth and strength to the human will. And together, helping each other, the soldiers overcome with the posture of holding their heads high in the face of all challenges and hardships.
“You and I know every chill,
Fever, shivering, sweaty forehead.
My shirt is torn at the shoulder
My pants have some patches
Frozen smile
Shoeless
Several injured hand grip!”
The hardships and hardships are still long on the road of national resistance. But it seems that in front of these people, everything is no longer dangerous. In the quiet moonlit night, in the middle of the misty forest, the soldiers were still standing shoulder to shoulder, standing side by side with the gun pointed towards the enemy.
“Tonight the misty wild forest
Stand next to each other waiting for the laundry to come.”
The strength of the mutual trust and concern among the soldiers strengthened their camaraderie. Because they know that when together they light up a lasting comradeship, the most common strength will be the strongest. The goal of fighting for their homeland, for their Fatherland will be achieved more quickly. When the will and purpose are on the same path, the affection between them is even more intimate and deep. It is the comradeship between soldiers…
Not only stopping at the emotional level between soldiers, the poem “Comrade” also brings us a higher romantic detail at the end of the song:
“Tonight the misty wild forest
Standing side by side waiting for the laundry to arrive
The moon gun head hangs.”
The soldier was not lonely and cold because he had his comrades and gun, the most trusted friends, the comradeship warmed his heart. The soldier wholeheartedly followed the point of the gun. It was at that moment that they encountered a strange phenomenon.
“Moon gun head hanging.”
The unique creative expression of Chinh Huu’s artistic prowess through the poem is this image. From comradeship, through various challenges, Chinh Huu has created a poetic vision. If the above two verses are not combined with the image of “the moon hanging gun”, it is difficult to have special values. On the contrary, without the support of those two verses, the image will be considered as poeticizing the soldier’s combat life. The smooth blend between reality and romantic, soaring poetry has made “the hanging moon gun” become one of the most beautiful images of anti-French resistance poetry. Including the love, the intention and especially the subtle perception of the Righteousness.Thanks to the clever association, the soul is rich in emotions, the Righteousness has evoked an immense space in the midst of the universe. la, it has something very floating, mysterious, indescribable. That image makes a deep aesthetic impression on the reader. At the same time, it becomes a unique multi-meaningful image of poetry. Hanging Moon Gun” was built with a surreal, poetic style. Why is that? We really appreciate the realistic artistic space of “salty water and sour fields”, “land plowed on rocks” and especially the space “wild forest of hoarfrost”; it has contributed to beautify the image of the moon and the gun. These two images are in stark contrast to each other. On one side is the eternally attractive and strange moon, peaceful with poetry. It symbolizes the beautiful life, peace and happiness of mankind, and also the dream of a beautiful, peaceful and happy life. But the moon here is placed in relation to guns. On one side are guns, guns symbolize war and death, but guns also become noble ideals, fighting spirit for a peaceful national life of soldiers. The moon is romantic beauty, guns are reality. Despite being opposite, these two images have enhanced each other’s beauty, creating the most perfect beauty. It is not by chance that Righteousness puts two opposite images in a verse. Thereby, he wanted to affirm his aspiration for a peaceful and poetic life: for the moon to shine forever, in the country’s circuTaxances at that time, everyone had to fight with guns. It can be said that the image of “Moon-hanging gun head” is an interesting and unique discovery of Chinh Huu. Chinh Huu has used realistic style to create poetic images that are both realistic and romantic. and guns combined into a lyrical poetic space, is a symbol of the brave spirit, eternal pomp of the nation in general and soldiers in particular.
The poem has ended but it will live forever as long as people do not lose their own instinct: vibration. Indeed, literature has created for itself a position that is stronger than history. Together recreating a painful but great time and the image of a soldier, but literature has come to the reader in the way of the heart, causing aesthetic impulses in the human soul, making it emotional. soul and unforgettable impressions. Those were the painful years that witnessed great people and indomitable brave soldiers. They are not dry, but have a burning enthusiasm, full of sacrifice, with pure and friendly comradeship. It is these things that make the poem “Comrade” on the pages still sometimes be turned over, still dripping, resounding, thinking of ordinary but miraculous people with pride, for now and tomorrow. remember forever.
