Thesis information "Typical artistic symbols in To Huu's poetry" by HVCH Nguyen Thi Nguyet, majoring in Literary Theory.1. Full name of student: Nguyen Thi Nguyet 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: October 5, 1983 4. Place of birth: Cam Binh, Cam Xuyen, Ha Tinh. 5. Decision to recognize student No.: 2551/2007/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH, dated November 2, 2007 by the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 6. Changes during the training process: None 7. Thesis topic: Typical artistic symbols in To Huu's poetry 8. Major: Literary Theory; Code: 60 22 32 9. Scientific supervisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Khanh Thanh, Working organization: Vice Head of the Graduate School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 10. Summary of the results of the thesis: Typical artistic symbols in To Huu's poetry The thesis has studied the system of symbols in To Huu's poetry, focusing on the four most typical symbols in his poetry: The road, the river, the boat, the flag, to see the consistency in To Huu's thoughts on the revolutionary path and the poetic path. Chapter 1: Overview of symbols and To Huu's creative journey Symbol is a familiar concept, but this is a complex concept and there is no consensus in understanding and usage. Synthesizing the achievements of Marxist aesthetics and literary theory, the authors of the Dictionary of Literary Terms have defined symbol as follows: In the broad sense, symbol represents "the characteristic of reflecting life through literary and artistic images". In a narrow sense, symbol is “a way of transcoding speech” placed next to metaphor, metonymy or a special type of artistic image “with great ability to convey, both generalizing the nature of a phenomenon and expressing a concept, an idea or a profound philosophy about people and life”. To Huu is a poet of communist ideals, To Huu’s poetry represents the political lyrical tendency clearly shown in 7 poetry collections. To Huu’s poetry reflects quite comprehensively the changes of history, of the times as well as the ideals and feelings of communist soldiers in wartime as well as 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 source of political lyrical poetry, carrying the revolutionary and artistic thoughts of the poet. The road, the river, the boat, the flag… are the most typical symbols in his poetic works. The road has become the central symbol in To Huu's entire poetic career. Besides, the river, the boat, the flag, are symbols used by To Huu as highlights to clarify the hardships as well as happiness on the revolutionary path that the nation is taking. Chapter 3: Some features of the art of building symbols in To Huu's poetry Building symbols in specific historical space and time is a success in To Huu's poetry, poetry that is close and carries the breath of human life. Building symbols in poetry, To Huu not only describes it in specific historical time and space, but the majority of his works are symbols built in imaginary space and time and rich associative art. Imagination is an indispensable quality of an artist when composing. Poetry is immortal because it always soars with its wings of imagination. Building the symbols of the road, the river, the boat, the flag, To Huu was the first person to create a historical poetic line in Vietnamese poetry with a direction and rhythm of movement imbued with national nuances. In short, on his journey of poetic creation, To Huu left beautiful marks in people's hearts and in national culture. Discovering the beauty of artistic symbols in his poetry is also a way for readers to understand more about the content and artistic value still hidden in those "once-in-a-fire" verses.
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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" besides 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”.
