Learn from Uncle Ho's touching poems

Read Uncle Ho's poems

The Darker the Dungeon, the Burning Heart
Chains cannot lock up songs
Hundreds of rivers and thousands of mountains, but no one falls
Love the country, love people, love flowers and grass.

Read Uncle Ho's poetry, Uncle Ho's soul
A mirror without dust
The shade of the giant tree is cool and green.
Wide wings free flying bird.

Freedom! No sword or gun can stop it!
Wide sea, long river, high will
Body in prison, heart in the country
Flying around the dream of golden stars.

When the birds sing in the mountains
When looking at the banana grove in the moonlight
Work hard but still keep your mind at ease
Hold your life in your hands.

I read hundreds of articles with hundreds of beautiful ideas.
The light shines on the green hair
Uncle Ho's poems, steel poems
But still immense love.

5-1960

HOANG TRUNG THONG

Hoang Trung Thong is a typical poet of Vietnamese revolutionary literature. Hoang Trung Thong’s poetry is gentle, clear, and a bit profound. His main works include: The Road We Walk (1960), The Sailboats (1964), Inviting the Moon (1992)…

During his time studying the poetry collection Prison Diary by Ho Chi Minh , poet Hoang Trung Thong expressed his feelings through the highly descriptive poem Reading Uncle Ho's Poetry . Reading Uncle Ho's Poetry , excerpted from the poetry collection The Road We Walk (1960), is still considered a work that has greatly moved many generations of poetry-loving readers.

When reading the book of poems Prison Diary , the poet could not contain his emotions. Those emotions were awakened by what Uncle Ho had to go through and overcome strongly. In the darkness of imprisonment and oppression, his heart "burned more and more", raised his song and aspiration for "independence for my Fatherland, freedom for my people". Therefore, no hardship could shake him, no danger could make him fall. Poet Hoang Trung Thong learned from Uncle Ho in his strong will, patriotism, love for people and a passionate, intense love for nature. Therefore, the four opening verses of the work are also a general opening for the entire beauty of Uncle Ho's soul throughout the book of poems:

The Darker the Dungeon, the Burning Heart
Chains cannot lock the song
Hundreds of rivers and thousands of mountains, but no one falls
Love country, love people, love flowers and grass.

With seven-syllable verse, a strong and powerful tone, Hoang Trung Thong conveyed to the reader an ideological message that he himself had drawn from the process of studying and researching Uncle Ho's poetry and literature, especially the collection Prison Diary . The heart burning with the desire for independence and freedom made the dangers in prison unflinching, the difficulties in this life unshaken.

After the opening stanza that gives a general idea of ​​Uncle Ho's poetry, the poet shifts his emotions to a more specific perception of the clear beauty and the intense desire for freedom in Uncle Ho's soul. His life is like "a clear mirror without dust", like a "bright mirror" river reflecting on the first day when Uncle Ho "just got out of prison, learning to climb mountains". The three consecutive metaphorical images in the second stanza are the clear mirror, the shadow of a giant tree, and the roc bird, which have great artistic power when the poet expresses the beauty of Uncle Ho's soul:

Read Uncle Ho's poetry, Uncle Ho's soul
A mirror without dust
The shade of the giant tree is cool and green.
Wide wings free flying bird.

As if to emphasize the ideological value of the poem collection Prison Diary , and at the same time help readers understand more deeply his ultimate desire, Hoang Trung Thong devoted the third stanza to vividly depicting the desire for freedom and the strong will radiating from Uncle Ho's soul. His freedom cannot be "stopped by any sword or gun", his will is like "the vast sea and long river". Although his body is in prison, his soul still turns towards his homeland with the five-pointed golden star in his dreams.

Freedom! No sword or gun can stop it!
Wide sea, long river, high will
Body in prison, heart in the country
Flying around the dream of golden stars.

Love of nature, love of life and revolutionary optimism are the noble features of Uncle Ho's soul in poetry. Reading Uncle Ho's poetry, especially his Prison Diary , how can we forget the poems On the Road, Cold Night, Moon Watching ... which deeply express that. In prison, President Ho Chi Minh still firmly grasped the law of life "when the rain stops, the sun will shine" so he still maintained a leisurely, relaxed spirit. To have such a "steel" spirit and such a bright and widespread love can only be the revolutionary and patriot Ho Chi Minh:

When the forest birds sing loudly in the mountains
When looking at the banana grove in the moonlight
Work hard but still keep your mind at ease
Hold your life in your hands.

The work ends with the last stanza of the poem rich in ideological value, consistently expressing the beauty in poetry and Uncle Ho's soul in life. That is also the assessment of poet Hoang Trung Thong about the collection of poems Prison Diary .

Uncle Ho's poems are "beautiful" because they help each of us cultivate the morality of a revolutionary, arouse patriotism, the desire for freedom and the spirit of resilience in the face of hardship and challenges. Each poem in Prison Diary has its own beauty but still follows the common spirit emanating from the great soul and personality of Ho Chi Minh:

I read hundreds of articles with hundreds of beautiful ideas.
The light shines on the green hair
Uncle Ho's poems, steel poems
But still immense love.

Indeed, the "steel" and "love" qualities in Uncle Ho's poetry as well as his standard, serious lifestyle and preservation of revolutionary ethics always went together throughout his life.

Reading Uncle Ho's poems is a poem rich in generalization, synthesizing the feelings of a revolutionary poet who lived, fought and studied following Uncle Ho's example all his life. From the collection of poems Prison Diary composed by him in the dark prison conditions, through the evaluation to open up useful values ​​by poet Hoang Trung Thong, we feel more deeply the meaningful lessons, the noble beauty radiating from the thoughts and personality of Ho Chi Minh - the father of the Vietnamese nation.

LE THANH VAN

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