Green spring, the path to the future

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I GO PLANT TREES IN SPRING

Spring I go plant trees
The sun rises from the place where your hands are planted
The wild hills will turn into pine forests
The mottled mountains will burn green.

Hey you, hey sister, hey brother
One cultivates the roots, the other lifts the young branches
Slope, undulating hats
The birds were chirping happily around the hill.

The gentle wind touches the sweat
To put a natural smile on your face
Spring sunshine sparkles everywhere
Joy and excitement spread across the hills.

From that small hand
Contribute green shoots to the loving earth and sky
Then here all over the country
Green spring road to the future.

NGUYEN LAM THANG

“Spring is the season for tree planting/ Making the country more and more springy” (Ho Chi Minh). During his lifetime, Uncle Ho taught our country’s youth and children that. To follow his dream, launching a campaign to plant trees and afforest, bringing beautiful green color to the country is a regular activity of young people and students in schools. The poem “Spring I Plant Trees” by poet Nguyen Lam Thang (born 1973, in Dai Loc district, Quang Nam province) has successfully expressed this theme, arousing in young people the awareness and responsibility in protecting the environment, preserving the green color on all roads of the homeland.

In the first stanza, author Nguyen Lam Thang introduces the image of a young child planting trees on a wild hill with everyone else. The brilliant spring sunlight of the sky and earth seems to blend into the working atmosphere. From the child's diligent hands planting trees, the sunlight suddenly shines beautifully. In that innocent soul, there is a dream of a wild hill becoming green and lush again:

Spring I go plant trees

The sun rises from the place where your hands are planted

The wild hills will turn into pine forests

The mottled mountains will burn green.

After the introduction of the space, time and image of the children planting trees, the author describes the tree planting activity as joyful and bustling. The enthusiastic calls of “hey you, hey sister, hey brother” resound like joyful cheers among the rolling hills. Hats and hats swaying, birds chirping, the sparkling spring sunshine… everything seems to burst into vibrant sounds and splendid colors:

Hey you, hey sister, hey brother

One cultivates the roots, the other lifts the young branches

Slope, undulating hats

The birds were chirping happily around the hill.

The interesting thing here is that the poet has observed very carefully the natural picture surrounding the tree planting activity. The three most focused images are the flock of birds, the wind and the sun. The flock of birds happily chirped with chirping sounds in the middle of the brilliant spring. The gentle and "obedient" wind also touched the sweat of the little friend who was smiling innocently. The sparkling spring sunlight from above shone all over the land. The spring picture was so beautiful and splendid. The scenery and people, the sounds of nature and the sounds of the tree planting activity blended together, filling the hills and mountains:

The gentle wind touches the sweat

To put a natural smile on your face

Spring sunshine sparkles everywhere

Joy and excitement spread across the hills.

From the image of a child planting a tree, the author has generalized the value of labor and human contribution to bring green to the homeland and country. Each small hand contributes a green sprout, many children working together will create endless green. Thanks to that, the future on every road will turn into an eternal “green spring”:

From that small hand

Contribute green shoots to the loving earth and sky

Then here all over the country

Green spring road to the future.

From the simple six-eight poem, through the specific actions of the children, the lesson about the value of labor, solidarity and the sense of contribution to the homeland of each person is truly beautiful and great. After reading the work, surely each child will love the shady trees in their school more and have many other practical and useful contributions to preserve the green - clean - beautiful environment.