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Prompt: Analyzing the expressive value of the following two lines in the poem 'The Peddler' by Vu Dinh Lien: 'Sorrowful red paper not vibrant. Ink lingering in melancholy.'
Analyzing the expressive value of the following two lines in the poem 'The Peddler' by Vu Dinh Lien
1. Analyze the expressive value of the following two lines in the poem 'The Peddler' by Vu Dinh Lien: Sorrowful red paper not vibrant. Ink lingering in melancholy, sample 1:
'Sorrowful red paper not vibrant
Ink lingering in melancholy'.
'Red paper' is the paper used for writing by the peddler. That paper is very fragile, just a little dampness can fade its color. 'Sorrowful red paper not vibrant', 'not vibrant' because it hasn't been used for a long time, so it has become faded, pale over the years. The ink is the same: 'ink lingering in melancholy'. It is the deep black ink, used to write on the 'red paper'. When writing, the ink must be ground and then used with a calligraphy pen to draw the characters 'Like phoenixes dancing, dragons soaring'. But now 'Ink lingering in the inkwell' means the ink has been ground for a long time, ready for the skilled hand of the peddler to perform magic but waiting in vain. The words 'sad', 'melancholy' seem to breathe life into the objects. Thanks to this personification, the sorrow about the peddler's fate seems to have penetrated deeply into each object, enveloping the space and weighing heavily on every heart.
2. Analyze the expressive value of the following two lines in the poem 'The Peddler' by Vu Dinh Lien: Sorrowful red paper not vibrant. Ink lingering in melancholy, sample 2:
Poetry is an image, a human image... From a specific tangible object, it explodes into an immense intangible realm... From a single point, it opens up a space and time dimension where the rhythm forever conveys a heartfelt message... (Nguyen Tuan)
Coming to these two lines:
Sorrowful red paper not vibrant;
Ink lingering in melancholy...
In Vu Dinh Lien's poem 'The Peddler', surely the reader feels perpetually touched by a heartfelt message.
The peddler is indeed a pitiful relic of a bygone era. The entire poem depicts the image of the peddler, like an artist in a painting of colorful spring, vibrant life is Hoeing the soil with the elegance of phoenixes dancing, dragons soaring, but by the third stanza, the peddler appears in the painting truly dismal:
But each year, more and more absent
Where are the hired writers now?
Sorrowful red paper not vibrant;
Ink lingering in melancholy...
Still, it's the spring painting, the scenes seem so desolate:
But each year, more and more absent
Where are the hired writers now...
Two lines:
Sorrowful red paper not vibrant;
Ink lingering in melancholy...
The rhythm descends, settling the sorrow. The word 'sorrow' at the end of the sentence falls like a stone, weighing down the soul. Alongside Vietnam's harsh urbanization under the feudal colonial regime, Confucian characters become unwanted commodities. In this irresistible trend, the peddler's plight becomes desolate, pitiable: Where is the Confucian character now? Without hired writers, it means there are no enthusiasts for literature, good characters, the peddler's paper and ink become desolate, sorrowful paper, melancholic ink.
Paper, ink are familiar images associated with ancient scholars, red paper, a bright background where square characters are born, along with ink and the skilled hands of the writer, creating the art of calligraphy, a cultural beauty that has existed for generations.
Yet now Sorrowful red paper not vibrant, lingering Ink in melancholy. Sorrow, inherently a human emotion, but here, through personification, Vu Dinh Lien imbues those lifeless objects with the sorrow of human emotions.
Because there are no hired writers, those red papers are just left there, unnoticed, so they become dull, their red color becoming tasteless. There used to be vibrant colors that stirred people's hearts in poetry, the dreamy colors of Ho Xuan Huong's dreams If there is love, then it becomes vibrant again, but the vibrant color fades quickly in folk songs, but the vibrant color here is different. The paper is originally red, but because of neglect, it cannot become vibrant. The paper also carries the heavy sorrow of people's hearts.
The inkwell is the same, without a nib to dip into, so the ink remains silent, the sorrow unspoken, lingering like tears with indescribable sadness.
The sorrow from people's hearts has permeated into these lifeless objects. The weight of the words 'lingering ink' combined with the ending parallelism in the sentence makes the verse heavy, the sorrow piled up, thicker.
With evocative personification, skillful parallelism, these two lines are like the poet's silent sigh, elevated from compassion and nostalgia.
These could be seen as two masterful romantic scene descriptions by Vu Dinh Lien. Poetry intends to make people cry, oneself included. Perhaps this is the weeping of Vu Dinh Lien for a bygone era now only echoing shadows.
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