In artistic creation, when an author invests a lot in both quantity and quality of his work, he will gradually shape a style for his poetry. Tran Ha Yen is the same. From the previously published poetry collections to the recently released poetry collection Going through the thirsty land , Tran Ha Yen has more opportunities for readers to recognize in her poetry the tone of a gentle and tender poetic soul. Especially when Tran Ha Yen writes about her homeland and mother, the two most prominent and popular lyrical images in her poetry:
Homeland of my heart
Missing the old roof thousands of miles away
Is there still a home on rainy days?
Are there still mother's wings that flutter rhythmically?
(Birds on the Waves in the episode Passing Through the Land of Thirst)
Published works of Tran Ha Yen
Tran Ha Yen's poetry thus also creates depth in words and emotions. The images that create strong emotional impressions in her poems sometimes make readers sympathize to the point of tears:
Still the brown shirt has faded in the sun and rain
Mother is exhausted in the flooded fields
Love the storks wading in the fields behind the front beach
Thin feet still wandering day by day
(Spring Afternoon Missing Mother in the collection Drops of Time)
However poetry Tran Ha Yen is not sentimental but always optimistic and believes in life. older sister know how to forget the painful past to move towards the future. The following verses in April are a way of forgetting the painful past of Tran Ha Yen, which is to release the pain into the river and sea:
Yes, the season has just come.
The sun nurtures honey on the betel and areca rows
I come back to bring pain
Release into the river to quickly forget people
(April is coming back in the episode Going through the land of thirst)
Like other poets throughout the world, Tran Ha Yen writes poetry to express her feelings and emotions. That is the feeling of a woman who loves life, loves people, loves her job and loves life. In Tran Ha Yen's poetry, there is no room for hatred or resentment towards anyone. Her poetry can be seen as the voice of selfless tolerance and purity . Sadness in the Rainy Night in the collection Drops of Time are lines like this:
Long life
Many ways through here
And steps
he never came back
Only you
with a naive love
Sad rainy night
still remember...
Poet Tran Ha Yen
Tran Ha Yen's poems therefore always create sympathy and harmony with readers. The author of this article was quite surprised when reading the verses written about veterans, soldiers who had been through the battlefield and were ready to fight and sacrifice for the country in the poem The Old Soldier. ( poetry collection) Drop of time ) of her. Surprised because this theme is rarely found in Tran Ha Yen's poetry:
More than half a lifetime still holding a gun to go out
Footprints across the country
The battlefield is far away, but the footsteps are still heavy.
The heart still finds its way back
I love my homeland so much.
Writing such poems can only be the author's respect and love for the image of Uncle Ho's soldier.
This is even more clearly demonstrated by Tran Ha Yen in the collection Going through the thirsty land (The Writers Association Publishing House, April 2023). The collection of 58 poems was carefully selected by Tran Ha Yen from her recent works.
In Going through the thirsty land , Tran Ha Yen continues the source of love and life but at a higher and brighter level. Still talking about the image of a mother, but the mother in Canh Co is a mother who works day and night for her child , showing more clearly the sacrifice and hard work of a mother day and night to raise her child:
Dear confused wings
The sunset is near the horizon
The way home is fun
The stork is a mother who works day and night for her children.
( The stork is a mother who is always there for her children day and night )
It is still love, but it is the love of longing for closeness and reunion, even if it is just through a "touch of the hand":
Touch
To passion
light up
Like the time you came back to me
( Touching the four seasons )
Those are the joyful words of Tran Ha Yen's poetry before the happiness of life. Happy to live with passions, happy to be loved. And that is also the happiness of life, the happiness of the poet. Just by skimming through the titles of the poems in Going through the thirsty land, we can easily see that: Soul of the countryside, Autumn fragrance, Red thread of yellow sunlight, Old path of the past, March and you, April season returns, Please lend me your shoulder ... all have the same bright and clear tone.
It should also be added that the words, rhymes and rhythms in the collection Passing Through the Land of Thirst are more concise and succinct than Tran Ha Yen’s previous collections of poems, and the rhyming in the poems written in the six-eight meter is also more skillful and refined. I like her verses about the first raindrops of the season, the raindrops that bring the haunting sound of life:
The love I have in my life
Like a broken bubble, sad and lost
Life is like pouring rain
Where do fallen leaves go?
( The rainy season has just begun )
That is a new step forward of Tran Ha Yen's poetry in the collection Going through the thirsty land .
Finally, I want to talk about the artistic form of Tran Ha Yen's poetry. It is simplicity, not fussy about words. From beginning to end, Tran Ha Yen's poetry always adheres to an artistic style of calmness, easy to read, easy to remember, easy to enter people's hearts. While many young poets like to aim for the uniqueness of language to create a different and unnecessary innovation, Tran Ha Yen remains faithful to the most sincere and honest writing style. That is also her adherence to the artistic tradition of Vietnamese poetry.
The poem Tuy Hoa Afternoon in the collection You and Missing is a poem of such sincerity:
Afternoon in Tuy Hoa, watching the calm, deserted sea flow by
Ripples in the middle of the blue ocean
Hear in my heart the pain of longing
Do you still remember me wherever you are?
It is so poignant and touching.
And so, Tran Ha Yen’s poetry became better and better, and increasingly had a certain position among female poets in Ho Chi Minh City. She became a woman who wrote poetry. I am so happy about that.
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