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The magical power of love

TRAN LANH January 5, 2025 14:00

The poem 'My Love' by author Ho Ngoc Son recreates a realistic picture of life and the magical power of love.

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love
When the leaf falls from the branch
The leaves are no longer green.
Why are you far from me?
Life is still green

no problem
Love is life
So the sun shines in my heart
The pulse of life is hot and tense

How far away are you?
Your love is like a stream
Nostalgia and nostalgia
Follow me through the forest

The further away you go
My love is like grass and flowers
affectionate and tender
Follow him to the fields

You go far away
The arduous road to liberation
Your love is a full sail
Through the storm

Your love is red fire
Burning in the middle of winter night
The sun rises red
Like your rosy lips

Why is it late at night on the hilltop?
Your eyes are far away
Be the wind, my dear
Fly my bird

Let's love each other
A lifetime of fighting
You go away for days
My love is like a long river...
HO NGOC SON

Although he did not compose much, the poem "Love You" by author Ho Ngoc Son deserves to be honored as a poem that will live forever.

Poet Ho Ngoc Son was born in 1932 in Quang Ngai. He joined the army and then moved to the North in 1954. In 1961, he returned to the South to fight on the battlefields of Zone 5 and the Central Highlands. He belongs to the generation of soldier poets who matured during the two great resistance wars of the nation.

Love is an eternal, humane emotion, becoming an endless source of inspiration for poetry. “There are as many ways to love as there are hearts” (Lev Tolstoy). Therefore, there are as many ways to express the nuances of love as there are love poems.

Among many writers of love poems, Ho Ngoc Son still finds his own unique way to create. He wrote “Love you” in the context of the fierce resistance war against the US. Putting the poem in its context, we can feel the power of love between couples. The poem is written in five-word verse, short rhythm, consisting of 32 verses, full of emotions, expressing the rich range of “love you”.

“My love” is a love poem containing “unspeakable meaning” because the poem not only recreates a realistic picture of life and distance in love:You go far away, how many mountains/ You go further and further/ You go far away forever/ You go away for days and months…The verses express the arduous battle, the resilience of the soldiers and the waiting of the rear. Deep within the verses is the passionate, deep love of “you” and “me” in the situation of separation.

The images of comparison and the repetition of words and structures continuously evoke the levels of “my love” for him. It can be seen through the poetic language that the author expresses her lingering, longing, inseparable love, quietly accompanying him on every path of battle:Your love is like a stream / Flowing with me throughout the forest / Your love is like a long river.Your gentle, affectionate love guides me to the most beautiful things. Your love is also warm and passionate, warming me on a cold winter night:Your love is a red fire/ Burning in the middle of the winter night/ The rising sun is red/ Like your rosy lips.

His marching and fighting path encountered many hardships and dangers, but with my love, secretive yet intense, humble yet passionate, following every step he took, he could overcome any hardship.

The poem also contains profound philosophical reflections on the laws of life and the laws of love:When the leaf falls from the branch/The leaves are no longer green./ But why are you far from me? / Life is still so green.Ho Ngoc Son believes that love has magical power. The loyalty, waiting, and trust of "her" in the rear is the source of strength.

With a source of abundant love, the poet praised and cherished:Your love is a red fire/ Burning in the middle of a winter night/ The rising sun is red/ Like your rosy lips/ Why is the late star on the hilltop/ Is your distant eyes/ Be the wind, my dear/ Give wings to my dear bird.

Those images are all the beauty of the surrounding nature, familiar and close, warm, sweet, soaring, romantic, rich in aesthetic value. That love is the magical wings that give strength to you and me:Let's love each other/ Fight all our lives/ You're gone for days/ My love is like a long river...

The love between couples in the poem is always closely linked to the noble ideal of protecting the Fatherland, with the goal of fighting to liberate the homeland and unify the country. "When the Fatherland needs them, they know how to live apart". At that time, the biggest challenge is not the fierce bullets and bombs but the fierce struggle to maintain faith in tomorrow's victory.

With poetic language rich in imagery, rich in association, rich in rhythm, the repeated word "your love" is repeated 6 times, becoming the main tone with nuances of respect, praise, and trust. The rhetorical device of continuously comparing "your love" to life, flowers, long rivers, full sails... becomes a passionate echo, lingering in the hearts of readers.

“Poetry is the voice of soulmates”, so the poem “Love you” was set to music by musician Huy Du in late 1962. The song quickly became one of the famous love songs during the anti-American resistance war. “Love you” deserves to be voted as one of the best love poems in Vietnamese revolutionary poetry. The poem is a love song that lives forever.

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