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Che Lan Vien's poetic voice - 7

(Has the country ever been this beautiful?)


In Che Lan Vien's inspiration for the Party, there is a sacredness, a sincerity. For Che Lan Vien, the Party is always the bright star, the guiding compass. Wherever this devoted and righteous man lives, he always remembers the merits of the Party and the people:

Where there is no good land, Fatherland, without love, the Party teaches the people to raise

(Looking back at winter)

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The simple verse expresses a truth of our nation in the era of the Party. Che Lan Vien was also a person who was highly aware of the beautiful qualities of Communist Party members from the days of hardship:

Che Lan Vien's poetic voice - 7

Once the direction is known, the bamboo stick becomes a weapon to kill the enemy. My brothers used their teeth to tear the flesh of the enemy.

A leaflet stirred up a movement in a district. With mud on our hands and feet, we overthrew the entire royal dynasty.

(When you have a direction)


Because of the great cause of the Party, because of the great merits of the Party, when he was honored to join the Party's ranks, Che Lan Vien wrote with sacred emotions:

The day I joined the Party, the sky and earth seemed to change. Even inanimate objects brought tears to my eyes. Why did rocks and stones, barren trees suddenly seem sacred?

(Party admission in the motherland)


Che Lan Vien's inspiration about the Party combined with the cultural depth where he created unique images about the Party. Perhaps only Che Lan Vien could combine the Party's intellectual ideology with the indomitable tradition of his ancestors like this:

The years when our Party had the Bach Dang eye, the Dong Da eye, saw through the fate of the Fatherland a thousand years later.

(Bach Dang eye - Dong Da eye)

Che Lan Vien sincerely loved the Party and deeply understood its literary and artistic line.

Party:


The Party teaches us that we cannot follow the Party with all our hearts, which is far from what the nation loves.

(Reading Kieu)


That verse is like the direction of the entire national literature and art. It is concise and simple like the truth. Speaking the Party's line in a simple, sincere and loving voice, Che Lan Vien's poetry has the power to haunt readers, forcing them to remember because of the very unique images that combine talented intelligence with sincere emotions. Those are symbolic images but there are also real images like Che Lan Vien's documentary that also move us, moved because of the event itself, not because of artistic talent:

Eight hundred cups of rain, Uncle Ho had to wade through mud


Rice drought, Prime Minister and people go to water source


(Thinking about the Party)


2.2.4. Historical inspiration:

Che Lan Vien's historical inspiration also left many talented pages. Che Lan Vien wrote about history with many levels of emotions: respect, pride, love and even sorrow. In "The Sea Orchid Branch" he felt sorry for the ancients:

The flesh and blood of our ancestors followed the wind and the sad moon and disappeared.


His poetic voice is bitter and sorrowful because of sadness, resentment, loss, and hopelessness. Sometimes his poems express sympathy for history:

Oh! Pity the centuries without heroes!


The countries lack people to carry the thousand-pointed sword into battle.


(Has the country ever been this beautiful?)


In Che Lan Vien's poetry, history and present are always blended together, dialectically unifying to create great ideological power:

Only when there is a great victory can the nation shine with its ego "We have found ourselves" in Rach Gam, Dong Da, Ham Tu, Chi Lang

And "humanity found us" in the August Revolution, Hanoi, Dien Bien or in

Bach Dang


(Great Day)


The poetic voice is full of pride in national traditions, in the combination of tradition and modernity. Che Lan Vien often praises the media, making us love and be proud of our national history, but mainly to understand today, to see clearly that the things our era is doing are truly miraculous, which thousands of years ago could not do:

When Nguyen Hue rode an elephant holding a fire tiger, did he feel the immense spirit of the Fatherland as if we were riding a thousand armored vehicles?

And the heroic squads killing enemies in the sky?


(Summer News 72 - Commentary)


The long, almost prose-like verses create the political and current affairs tone of Che Lan Vien, which is the main tone of the two collections "Poems for Fighting the Enemy" and "New Dialogue".

Sometimes the romantic epic inspiration makes historical images mysterious.

virtual :


Fish turns into dragon and Buddha appears frequently


In a country where people often live by their means


In every poor star fruit there is always a fairy.


(Great Day)


Che Lan Vien's historical inspiration is not only respectful, proud, loving, but also sad.

but also imbued with humanity:


I have loved beautiful Vietnam, poetic Vietnam, the immense verses of Kieu, the bamboo banks and thatched roofs, the curved communal house roofs like a girl's hand rowing in the middle of the night,

Vietnamese storks in the cool, rainy air, the storks sway. The kindness and humanity in the carvings of Keo Pagoda.

(Summer News 72 - Commentary)


2.2.5. Inspiration about leadership:

One of the main inspirations of Che Lan Vien in his poetry from 1945 to 1975 was writing about Uncle Ho. The poet wrote about Uncle Ho as a need, an emotional urge of his own soul.

natural and sacred. The poet always has a great desire to wonderfully reflect the noble aesthetic object, Uncle Ho. If To Huu wrote about Uncle Ho with overflowing emotions, a gentle yet profound poetic voice, presenting both the normal and great aspects of Uncle Ho's personality in "Bac oi", "Theo chan Bac" ; then Che Lan Vien portrayed Uncle Ho in a general perspective, the pain, the longing, the love with a more solid color, the poetic voice was more sober. Che Lan Vien discovered many new issues from Uncle Ho's life: Uncle Ho and the revolutionary path, Uncle Ho and the people, Uncle Ho and love, Uncle Ho and revolutionary violence. And he helped readers understand Uncle Ho from many angles, many relationships: Uncle Ho - the sailor; Uncle Ho - the father; Uncle Ho - the grandfather; Uncle Ho - the philosopher; Uncle Ho - the tree planter; Uncle Ho - the photographer ... in the poetry collection Flowers in front of the Mausoleum.

The poems written by Che Lan Vien about Uncle Ho have a sincere and profound tone. In the poem "The Man in Search of the Country's Image", the epic inspiration combined with the historical inspiration highlighted the image of Uncle Ho's great courage and great wisdom, which are two features that converge and harmonize in the image of a great man - a national hero. That is " a great man who gives birth to life" and at the same time "a great man who gives birth to poetry" (Che Lan Vien - Essay Lotus of Humanity).

How can one understand the person who seeks the Image of the Country? It is not the image of a stone poem that creates a person, but the image of the country, either remaining or disappearing.

Ancient gold, future red.


(The Seeker of the Shape of Water)


Whenever talking about leaders, Che Lan Vien always writes with sincere and profound inspiration. In the article: "The person who changed my life, the person who changed my poetry", Che Lan Vien looks back at himself, emotionally comparing with the noble life of Uncle Ho. The comparison of two opposing categories: Great

- Enlightenment and Unconsciousness, the great and the small highlight the noble qualities of the leader. The poet is sincere when accepting all the mistakes, misunderstandings, and wastes to feel even more deeply grateful for Uncle Ho's change in his life:

Oh! In my heart, when did you come? You are great but you never surprise anyone. One morning, looking into my heart, I saw you. Tears streaming down my face, I felt so grateful.

(You changed my life, You changed my poetry)

To Huu's inspiration about Uncle Ho often begins with a highly realistic image, then in a majestic, magnificent lyrical tone, that image is raised to a symbolic level: idealized, epicized. For example, the image of Uncle Ho's brown cloth shirt is a real image that has been raised to:

I wish the piece of cloth scattered on the soul is more than the bronze statue exposed on the worn paths.

(Following Uncle Ho)


Che Lan Vien's inspiration about Uncle Ho was created through contemplation about the leader. The poet turned the issue over and over again from many angles: from private life, from the community, from humanity, from Uncle Ho's own state of mind to create a multifaceted portrait of the leader.

Uncle Ho's shadow is kissing the ground


Listening in the pink of the embryonic country


(The Man Who Seeks the Shape of Water)


Many, many issues were contemplated and analyzed by Che Lan Vien to discover the diverse and rich values ​​of Uncle Ho. Che Lan Vien once wrote: "With each step forward, the nation defines him from his nature" (Sen cua loai nhan). Uncle Ho in To Huu's poetry is simple, plain but great. Uncle Ho in Che Lan Vien's poetry is solemn and great:

Uncle lies there like a crystallization of a hundred lives.

Life is beautiful


He lay on the ground like something was attached.


Between living mountains and living mountains, people are people.


(I receive into myself His qualities)


Che Lan Vien has generalized conclusions about the influence of leaders on the spirit and ideology of our nation through the calm poetic voice of thoughts and contemplations about the loss and survival of leaders:

He is gone. A death in vain.


Long ago, He transformed the spirit, He transformed the country, It was a glorious victory for the Fatherland.

The builder, the cultivator


(Inside the mausoleum and outside)


Che Lan Vien always goes to the bottom of the problem and his conclusions are often like truths, like inescapable psychological laws. That makes his philosophical lyrical voice very unique.

2.2.6. Everyday inspiration:

In the context of a majestic and soaring epic, the poet's emotions still tend to seek peace to regain balance, expressing faith in victory, a calmness, serenity, and arrogance in the face of falling bombs and exploding bullets:

A million tons of bombs cannot destroy a single bead on a young bird's neck.

(Beaded necklace on the dove's neck)


The poet used contrasting, opposing images to affirm the indomitable existence of the Vietnamese people in the midst of brutality.

The poet's inspiration for his homeland and place of residence also creates poetic verses with a poetic tone.

deep melody:


When we live, it is just a place to live.


When we go, the land becomes the soul


The gentle and profound tones of Che Lan Vien when talking about ordinary life show the delicate and kind heart of Che Lan Vien. We can also call it a humane lyrical voice, but this is humane lyricism in an epic atmosphere. It is not too passionate about everyday topics, it only records a glimpse of emotion, a little bit of gentle and delicate vibration, moments of deep human affection and philosophy. These are small poems about love, love between husband and wife, father and son, friends, about mother, about nature, about leaders, about the country, about national affairs.

Che Lan Vien's love poems do not have the passionate longing emotions like Xuan Dieu, nor the anxiety and restlessness like Xuan Quynh, but they are the poems of a mature person, deeply emotional:

Without you I will not go to the garden


Afraid of the scent, afraid of the scent reminding me

The love between husband and wife in Che Lan Vien's poetry is warm and proud:


Fear not the bird fly away


Carrying the evening shadow away, our love is like a green deer

Call the morning back


(Morning love song)


Mother-child love in Che Lan Vien's poetry is full of filial piety and gratitude:


Lighting up the North-South road, I visit my mother. Picking a delicious bunch to offer to my mother to eat.

(High root label)


Flowers in Che Lan Vien's poetry not only represent the beauty of nature but are also symbols of happiness, spiritual support, eternal life, and the "enlightenment" of religious beliefs: "Flowers on stone", "Flowers on concrete", "Zen flowers", "Ideological lotus".

Happiness above our heads, yellow stars are everywhere. Tomorrow, your flowers will come back.

(Morning love song)


Religion in Che Lan Vien's poetry is also vibrant and lively because of life:


Buddha awakens two rows of pale robes at the cave entrance Remembering life and remembering the Buddha's butt sitting in a trance in the fragrance

(Walking in the Perfume Pagoda )


When the poet's inspiration seeks peace in an epic setting, the poetic voice becomes gentle, profound, poignant, and full of humanity. That is also the reason why people say that Che Lan Vien's poetry is "sometimes as cool as flowing water, sometimes as fiercely burning fire" (1)



(1) Pham Ho - "Che Lan Vien - The Eternal Gardener" - Book cited.

2.2.7. Poetic inspiration:

Not only sitting in one place to synthesize and generalize the issues of the era, epic inspiration also urged Che Lan Vien to go to every part of the Fatherland he loved. He "returned to the deep forests of Viet Bac", to "the vast Truong Son range", to "the clouds and sky of Cambodia and Vietnam connecting the border", then to the coal region of Quang Ninh, to the Northwest " the mother of the soul of poetry"... to go to the flourishing life. The more he traveled, the more his inspiration about life and poetry became more abundant, "the salt of life" made his poetry more crystallized. The reality of life is the mother's milk that nourishes the soul of Che Lan Vien's poetry. However, it is impossible to reflect reality in a monotonous way. Che Lan Vien has a whole system of theories about the process of creating poetry, the process of conceiving, nurturing, and recreating life with the beauty of poetry :

I hear the saltiness of life is crystallizing. It has not yet taken shape, I give it shape. It has not yet become a grain, I make it a grain.

Then pay the person with your blood


(Thinking about poetry)


The poet's inspiration about the process of writing poetry, the effects of poetry, the usefulness of poetry are some of the great inspirations that the poet is very passionate about. For Che Lan Vien, poetry has an important mission:

Three-dimensional life field On the poetry page

Two planes


(Square Poetry - Cube Life)


For Che Lan Vien, writing poetry is a beautiful way of life. He pursued and lived his whole life with poetry, with a very high sense of responsibility for his pen. Therefore, he always pondered over the issue of the poet's creative personality. Although he knew that poetry's responsibility was a weapon of ideological struggle, he had his own concept of his creative personality:

We share the same regime


On my own


(Go to the suburbs)

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