Creating an Outline for Analyzing the Poem 'Hurriedly', Model 1

Prompt: Please craft an outline to analyze the poem Hurriedly, Model 1

Creating an Outline for Analyzing the Poem 'Hurriedly'

I. Outline for Analyzing the Poem 'Hurriedly'

1. Introduction

Introducing the poet Xuân Diệu and the poem 'Hurriedly', summarizing the main content of the poem
- Xuân Diệu is an outstanding romantic poet in the New Poetry movement from 1930 to 1945
- The poem 'Hurriedly' is published in the collection 'Poetry poetry' – the first poetry collection in Xuân Diệu's creative career, published in 1938
- The poem reflects the love for nature, passionate love for life, along with the optimistic spirit, faith, and fervent aspirations of Xuân Diệu.

2. Main Body:

a) Structure of the Poem: The poem exhibits a clear, cohesive, and tightly-knit structure, closely intertwined with the author's emotional flow
- Part 1 (first 13 lines): The author's enchantment with the beauty of spring

b) Argument 1: Analyzing the author's love for nature
- Xuân Diệu expressed a somewhat audacious desire, that is, the desire to reign over nature, the earth, wanting time to stop flowing to preserve the creation and keep everything unchanged. From his fervent passion and deep love for nature, the author painted a picture of spring full of vitality, overflowing with the colors, scents, and spirit of spring.
- The springtime landscape emerges with a charming and romantic beauty. Everything in the spring weather is vividly depicted, from bees, butterflies, swallows, to flowers and leaves, and the radiant sunrise, all bursting with vitality. Everything mentioned by the poet is paired: the honey months of bees and butterflies, the flowers of the fields, the leaves of the branches, the love song of swallows, and the sunrise of the sun. This demonstrates the poet's fascination, romance, and enchantment with the spring landscape.
- The author is enamored with spring, enjoying it fully because, for him, spring is like youth, and the most beautiful time in life is youth, just as the most beautiful month is January.

c) Argument 2: Analyzing Xuân Diệu's mood and perception of time
- Xuân Diệu's perception of time is both delicate and philosophical. The poet composed this poem while still very young, still enjoying the lushness of life but thinking deeply about profound philosophy. Time is always associated with spring and the youth of human beings, every passing moment is a spring passing by, youth also passes by, when spring ends, so does human life.
- The author is someone who loves life, loves youth, hence, he is concerned and sorrowful about the passage of time taking away both spring and youth. The author's lamentation carries profound meanings about life, as life cannot have two springs, hence, the passing of youth is what the poet regrets and worries about the most.

d) Analysis 3: Interpreting the author's desire for life
- The author perceives nature in its entirety through all of his senses, wishing to preserve and grasp onto time in eternal youth, in the eternal spring of human life, to live forever with youth, to live forever in spring.
- The phrase 'We want' repeated multiple times combined with strong verbs like 'embrace, bite, bite...' vividly express the author's intense desire for life. The rhythmic poetry and urgency demonstrate the author's urgency to enjoy life.

3. Conclusion

 Summarizing the content and artistry of the poem
- 'Hurriedly' is a fresh and positive outlook on life by Xuân Diệu: One must love life, enjoy the gifts that life bestows, live to the fullest, and cherish the time of youth.
- This is a typical poem representing the new romantic style, Xuân Diệu's innovations bring bold creativity, from inspiration, ideas to imagery, tone, and language.
 

II. Sample essay analyzing the poem Hurriedly by Xuân Diệu

'Hastily' by Xuân Diệu is a self filled with joy, fervent for every sign of life yet filled with anxiety, anticipating Xuân Diệu's steps through time. The more one loves life, the more Xuân Diệu fears the fading beauty, the ephemeral nature of life. Unable to alter the flowing laws of time, the poet advocates living hastily, living urgently to fully savor the moments of youthful vigor.

In Xuân Diệu, we often encounter a poetic character that is rich, distinctive, and full of creativity, one might say 'one of a kind' in Vietnamese poetry. Xuân Diệu opens 'Hastily' with four lines of pentameter that initially seem to 'break the rhythm' of the entire poem:

'I want to extinguish the sun
So that colors don't fade away
I want to tether the wind again
So that fragrances don't drift away'

Right in the first stanza, Xuân Diệu demonstrates a bold and extravagant desire. Sun and wind are both natural phenomena and operate according to the laws of nature...(Continued)  

> Sample Essay: Analysis of the poem 'Hastily' by Xuân Diệu