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Three modern Vietnamese poets: Nguyen Binh, Huy Can and Xuan Dieu
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Nguyen Binh (1919–1966), a poet of the homeland who participated in the resistance, began his poetic career at the age of 13 and received the Encouragement Prize from the Tu Luc Van Doan (Self-Reliant Literary Group) in 1937. In the Dharma talk, Thay reads Flowers and Wine, depicting:
– The childhood friendship with the neighbor girl Nhi by the orange garden, imitating the making of wine, giving rise to an innocent love
– The fragrance of the homeland in the orange blossoms, the taste of wine, the contrast between rare happiness and the path of practice to nurture joy
Xuan Dieu (1917–1985), the “general” of the New Poetry movement, deeply influenced by Western thought, with his first poetry collection Tho tho (1938), Sending Fragrance to the Wind, Golden Pine Pollen. Two representative poems:
- Urgency – a call to love quickly, to savor the beautiful moments before impermanence arrives
- The Foolish Poem – the suffering of loving in the wrong place, illusion, “suffering because of asking in the wrong place”
Huy Can (born 1919, from Ha Tinh), graduated in Agriculture, later became Minister of Culture, his poetry from the age of 20–25 expresses:
– A dialogue with God after leaving this world, placing an innocent, lonely soul on the scale
– The aspiration for understanding and the separation caused by “flesh and bones” – the ordinary barriers between people