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Prompt: Describe your impressions of the depiction of communist soldiers in the poem Night Scene.
Sample essay: Depiction of communist soldiers in the poem Night Scene
Student's Work:
Oh, on this spring morning of '41
The border forest blooms with dreamy flowers
Uncle returns, the birds sing silently
The reeds sway happily, lost in thought
In the spring of 1941, Uncle Ho returned to directly lead the national liberation struggle. Viet Bac was chosen as the capital of resistance. During the Winter-Spring Campaign of 1947, we achieved significant victories in the Viet Bac region. Around the same time, Uncle Ho wrote the poem Night Scene. The poem depicts the beautiful moonlit mountains and forests of Viet Bac at night and expresses the fighting spirit for the nation of the communist soldier, Ho Chi Minh:
The stream sounds like a distant song
The moon hangs high, casting floral shadows
The night scene paints those who are yet to sleep
Not asleep due to worries for the motherland
The scenery of Viet Bac's forests unfolds with the gentle murmur of the stream, cool and refreshing day and night. In the silent night, the sound of the stream is very clear. The melodious and mysterious sound is felt by the author as distant singing. This is the artistic feature of 'using movement to describe stillness.' Only the sound of the stream flowing at night, while everything is immersed in sleep, in the battlefield of blood and fire, the sound of the flowing stream is not merely a natural flow, but it carries the warmth of humanity. When the national hero Nguyen Trai retreated to hide in Con Son, he also had very subtle feelings:
Con Son's stream flows murmuringly
We hear it like the sound of a violin by our ears
The sound of the stream is heard like the sound of a violin, the music leading our souls into a mysterious realm. Both military and political houses, though living in different times, have very delicate feelings about the sound of the stream at night. After the sound of the stream is the moonlight of the battlefield. Moonlight covers the entire space, the moonlight nestles in the ancient trees, blending into the earthly scenery. The moon is personified, recalled, making the beautiful moonlit night scene more magnificent, more poetic. It reminds us of the verses in the Poem of Chinh Phụ Ngâm:
The moonlight dissolves, the moon imprints on one piece
The moon embraces flowers, flowers blush each petal.
Moon and flowers, flowers and moon...
The opposing verses, the moon nestled in ancient trees / Floral shadows creating a scene of perfect balance and harmony. The picture of the battlefield at night is truly beautiful, full of poetic essence. The poet with a noble soul is enjoying the magical moments of nature.
The artist's heart trembles before the beauty of the moonlit night, intoxicated and entranced:
The night scene paints those who are yet to sleep
Not asleep due to worries for the motherland
Not sleeping to admire the moon, not sleeping to worry about the motherland. Ancient poetry often speaks of the moon, poets often seek solace in secluded forests, avoiding the dust of worldly life, but our Uncle Ho seeks nature to live amidst it, to engage in revolutionary activities - because Uncle Ho is a communist soldier:
The stone table, a witness to Party history
The revolutionary life is truly magnificent
(Referring to the scene at Pac Bo)
Living amidst the vast and expansive nature, intoxicated by the moonlight, yet within that intoxication lies the military leadership of the revolutionary boat of the homeland. This poem encompasses all the elements of classical poetry: there's a stream, there's a moon... But within that antiquity lies a modern essence, the steel quality of the communist soldier Ho Chi Minh. The moonlit nights in the Viet Bac battlefield are truly beautiful, sitting admiring the moon while the heart trembles for the country still steeped in misery and slavery, hence the person:
Not asleep due to worries for the motherland
The steel quality of the communist soldier is deeply portrayed even when imprisoned:
No wine, no flowers in prison cell
The beauty of tonight's scene, hard to quell
A moon-gazer peers through the window frame
The moon spies on the poet's dream
(Moon-gazing)
Even the poet cannot remain indifferent to tonight's beauty, and thus the moon actively seeks out the poet. The moon seems to understand and records the poet's restless contemplation. That feeling is none other than the nation's turmoil nestled in the heart.
Tonight, in the Viet Bac battlefield amidst mountains and forests, that same moon still shines, the moon still hangs in the sky, do these moons not know? The Southern sky is steeped in misery and slavery, yearning for respite, yet how can it find solace while witnessing the complete beauty of tonight's scene. Within the heart of that poet lies a multitude of feelings, concerns for the country, for the people. This is the 'steel' quality, the quality of a soldier that Uncle Ho has spoken of:
Ancient poetry adores the beauty of nature, embracing clouds, wind, moon, flowers, snow, mountains, and rivers. Today, poetry must embrace steel; poets must also know how to mobilize.
The beauty of the communist soldier shines through in the poem, a beautiful and proud nocturnal scene. Uncle Ho possesses the soul of a poet and the integrity of a soldier.
Our Uncle is like this, adoring nature, living in harmony with it, yet also deeply loving the country and its people. The poem paints a picture filled with moonlight in the mountains and forests of North Vietnam, where communist soldiers, led by Ho Chi Minh, remain awake, worrying for the nation.
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Above is the section Depiction of Communist Soldiers in the poem Night Scene to enhance your understanding for essays and literary exercises. You may also refer to Your Reflection on the poem Night Scene along with the Analysis of the poem Night Scene by Ho Chi Minh.
Furthermore, Composing poems in hexameter verse is a crucial lesson in the Grade 7 Literature curriculum that students should pay special attention to.
