Comparison of the moon's imagery in the poems Comrade, Fishing Boat Team, Moonlight

Topic: Compare the moon's imagery in the poems Comrade by Chinh Huu, Fishing Boat Team by Huy Can, and Moonlight by Nguyen Duy.

Comparison of moon imagery in the poems Comrade, Fishing Boat Team, Moonlight

Moonlight is a familiar motif that frequently appears in literary and artistic works, becoming a subject for artists to express their emotions and feelings. The moon's imagery in the poems 'The Boat is Approaching the Fisherman' (Huy Can), 'Comrade' (Chinh Huu), 'Moonlight' (Nguyen Duy) is a clear testament to this. Through their works, each poet demonstrates creativity and a unique way of describing the natural moonlight, turning it into a sparkling, brilliant image with unique and distinctive beauty.

Topic: Comparison of moon imagery in the poems 'Comrade' by Chinh Huu, 'Fishing Boat Team' by Huy Can, and 'Moonlight' by Nguyen Duy.

Moonlight is described as an intimate confidant, a soulmate, and a close friend, symbolizing beauty, comradeship, and nature's richness. Although the moonlight is described in different aspects and methods, in the three aforementioned poems, the authors all regard the moonlight as an intimate confidant to express thoughts, feelings, emotions, and a close bond with human life.

Although explored based on similar points, in each poem, the authors have different perceptions and perspectives on the moon. In the poem 'Comrade', the moon's imagery appears and becomes a symbol of the beautiful crystallization of the beauty of Comrade soldiers as well as the beauty of comradeship. In the guerrilla nights 'Standing side by side waiting for the enemy to come', the soldiers stand together, with the ground and sky at this time connected by the imagery carrying the symbolic meaning 'Gun barrel moon hanging'. If 'gun' is the weapon that represents the cruelty and reality of the anti-French resistance war, then 'moon' is the metaphorical image symbolizing peace. The connection between these seemingly contrasting motifs through the verb 'hang' has suggested many ideas about war and peace, reality and romance, while successfully portraying the beauty of soldiers blending with the soul of the poet of the peasant soldiers in the resistance war against the French, a period of hardship yet heroic of the nation.

'The Boat is Approaching the Fisherman' by Huy Can is a work born after a practical trip to the Quang Ninh coal mining area. At the same time, the poem also marks a change in the author's style of writing in his poetic soul. Therefore, the imagery of moonlight always appears in relation to the change of new life, specifically the conquest of the vast sea of the 'fishing boats': 'Our boat sails with the wind and the moon sail' or like 'The boat has a high moon rhythm'. Moonlight is described as coexisting with the sail through the art of metaphorical transformation of feelings, creating a magnificent image of the joyful journey of working people; at the same time, it re-enacts the fishermen's mastery of nature. In particular, the imagery of moonlight in the poem also evokes the beauty of the sea in its richness and abundance of natural resources through the verses: 'Fish tails flicker in the golden moonlight'. Under the sparkling and magical moonlight reflecting on the water, creating the color 'golden', the fish tails flapping in the water as if frolicking with the moonlight. Thus, by using a combination of artistic techniques such as personification, metaphor, author Huy Can described the beauty of moonlight to evoke the beauty of nature and the mastery, epic labor of people in the conquest of the sea.

In the poem 'Moonlight' by Nguyen Duy, the moonlight is mentioned more often in the line of thought and emotional stream from the present to the past of the author. First of all, the moonlight is a close, intimate friend to humans:

'Back when I was little living with the field
with the river then with the sea
back during the war in the forest
the moon became a soulmate'

Throughout the years of childhood as well as through battles, the moon becomes an intimate friend, a soulmate closely linked to humans:

'Back when I was little living with the field
with the river then with the sea
back during the war in the forest
the moon became a soulmate'

At present, with more modern conveniences and when 'electric light in the mirror' prevails and is widely used, it is also the time when the shining, mystical light of the moon is forgotten. It is only when the electric light goes out that people suddenly realize the existence of the 'full moon'. Thus, the change in status and the inherent relationship between humans and nature stems from the change in human hearts, while the moon remains full, intact with the meaning of faithful love, unwavering in the attitude of 'silent indifference'. The moonlight, from the perspective of author Nguyen Duy, has been explored as a symbol crystallizing the noble and faithful way of life, reminding of gratitude, and cherishing the past - one of the good moral traditions of our nation.

Thus, through the way the moonlight is described in the three poems by the authors, we can completely see that each writer, poet will have a unique path of understanding, exploring, and recreating artistic images. This has woven a rich, diverse, and colorful tapestry of the world of literature and art.