Information about the thesis "Typical Artistic Symbols in To Huu's Poetry" by graduate student Nguyen Thi Nguyet, majoring in Literary Theory.1. Student's Full Name: Nguyen Thi Nguyet 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of Birth: October 5, 1983 4. Place of Birth: Cam Binh, Cam Xuyen, Ha Tinh Province 5. Decision No. 2551/2007/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH, dated November 2, 2007, issued by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 6. Changes during the training process: None 7. Thesis Title: Typical Artistic Symbols in To Huu's Poetry 8. Specialization: Literary Theory; Code: 60 22 32 9. Scientific Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Khanh Thanh, Affiliation: Vice Dean of the Graduate School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 10. Summary of the thesis results: Typical artistic symbols in To Huu's poetry. The thesis studied the system of symbols in To Huu's poetry, focusing on the four most typical symbols in his poems: the road, the river, the boat, and the flag, to see the consistency in To Huu's thought on the revolutionary path and the poetic path. Chapter 1: An overview of symbols and To Huu's creative journey. Symbols are a familiar concept, but they are also a complex one, and there is no consensus on their understanding or use. Synthesizing the achievements of aesthetics and Marxist literary theory, the compilers of the Dictionary of Literary Terms have defined symbols as follows: In a broad sense, a symbol represents "the characteristic reflection of life through literary and artistic imagery." In a narrow sense, a symbol is "a method of translating speech" placed alongside metaphor, metonymy, or a special type of artistic image "capable of conveying great emotion, both generalizing the essence of a phenomenon and expressing a profound concept, idea, or philosophy about humanity and life." To Huu was a poet of communist ideals; his poetry is representative of the political lyrical poetry trend, clearly demonstrated in his seven poetry collections. To Huu's poetry reflects quite comprehensively the changes of history and the era, as well as the ideals and feelings of communist soldiers during wartime and peacetime. Chapter 2: Typical Artistic Symbols in To Huu's Poetry The world of symbols in To Huu's poetry is rich and serves the main theme of political lyrical poetry, carrying the revolutionary and artistic ideas of the poet. The road, the river, the boat, the flag... are the most typical symbols in his poetic works. The river became a central symbol in To Huu's entire poetic career. Besides the river, the boat, and the flag, these symbols were used by To Huu as accents to further illuminate the hardships and joys on the revolutionary path the nation was treading. Chapter 3: A Few Notes on the Art of Symbol Construction in To Huu's Poetry. Building symbols within specific historical space and time is a success in To Huu's poetry; his poems are close to and breathe the life of human beings. In constructing symbols in his poetry, To Huu not only describes them within specific historical time and space, but a large part of his work consists of symbols built within imaginary space and time, and rich associative art. Imagination is an indispensable quality of an artist when creating. Poetry is immortal because it always soars on the wings of its imagination. By creating symbols of roads, rivers, boats, and flags, To Huu was the first to create a historical poetic style in Vietnamese poetry with a direction and rhythm deeply rooted in national identity. In short, on his poetic journey, To Huu left truly beautiful imprints in people's hearts and in national culture. Exploring the beauty of artistic symbols in his poetry is also a way for readers to better understand the content and artistic value still hidden in those verses from "a time of fiery conflict."
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name : Nguyen Thi Nguyet 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: October 5, 1983 4. Place of birth: Cam Binh – Cam Xuyen – Ha Tinh 5. Admission decision number: 2551/2007/QD-XHNV-KH&SĐH Dated November 2, 2007 6. Changes in academic process: No 7. Official thesis title: Representative representative in To Huu's poem 8. Major: Literary theory 9. Code: 60 22 32 9. Supervisors: Tran Khanh Thanh – Associate. Professor, Doctor of Philosophy, Vice Dean of Postgraduate Faculty, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 10. Summary of the findings of the thesis: Representative iconic in To Huu's poem. This thesis has researched the iconic system in To Huu, focusing on four most representative symbols of his poems: The road, the river, the boat and the flag, to show consistency in his poem's ideology about the revolutionary path as well as the poetic path. Chapter 1: overview of the icon and the writing process of To Huu. Iconic seems a familiar concept however, in fact, it is too complicated to get a definitional consensus how to understand and use it. Synthesized from aesthetic achievements, Marxist literary theory, the writers of the book “Dictionary of Literary Terms” defined literary iconic as followed: In the broad sense, "Iconic reflects life characterized by literary images", in a strict sense, the iconic is "a method of encoding words of mouth" beside metaphor, metonymy or a type of special art images, which is "capable of not only greatly inspiring, generalizing the nature of a certain phenomenon, but also expressing an attitude or a deep ideology about people and life". To Huu is a poet for ideal communism, his poem represents lyrically political tendency, which is evident in his 7 collections of poems. To Huu was born to reflect the changes of history, of our time as well as of the ideal quite comprehensively, sentiment of communism soldiers in wartime and peacetime. Chapter 2: The representative icons in To Huu's poem. Iconic world in To Huu's poems is very rich and the source for lyrically political kind, involved revolutionary thoughts and art ideas of the poet.The road, the river, the boat and the flag ... are the most representative symbols in his poems. The road became a central icon throughout his poetry career. Besides the river, the boat and the flag are symbols To Huu also used as the emphasis to clarify challenges as well as happiness on the revolutionary way of the country. Chapter 3: Some characteristics about the building art in To Huu' s poems Building symbols in space and a particular historical time, which was his success, his poetry is familiar and close to the human life. Building symbols in poems, To Huu not only describes it in a special time, space and history, but the majority of his work is built in imaginary space and time and flourished associative art. Imagination is a necessary element of composing writers. Immortal poetry always flies by the wings of its imagination. Constructing the road, the river, the boat and the flag, To Huu became the first one to create a poetry line in the history of Vietnam's poetry and rhythmic movement towards national aspect. In short, the journey of his creative poetry, To Huu had left their beautiful mark in the heart of people, of the national culture. Discovering the beauty of art symbols in his poetry is also a way for readers to understand more about the hidden value of content and art in poems with “a fire time”.
