Tâm sự của người lính chiến trường biên giới Tây Nam trong thơ Việt Nam hiện đại

Abstract

Despite being the latest war that happened to the Vietnamese people, the Southwestern border war, during the late 1970s made a very light imprint on Vietnamese modern literature comparing to the two previous resistant wars against France and America. Perhaps because this war took place mostly outside the country and lasted just a few years - much shorter than the two other wars. Besides, we cannot exclude the social context of the late 1970s during which Vietnamese people, including writers and readers, were too busy adapting themselves to the newly formed peace and to worn out by idealistic war clichés to pay attention to literature about another war. However, this fleeting but devastating war still produced a poetic sound so prideful but sorrowful. From the comparative perspective, this article analyses poems by a few writers who participated in this war such as Phạm Sỹ Sáu, Lê Minh Quốc, Đoàn Tuấn and Anh Ngọc, exploiting their outer view of the enemies, the Cambodian country and people and their inner perspective of themselves, their comrades and the war they were taking part in. With the historical view and the poetic and comparative methods, this article comes to the conclusion that the soldiers of the Southwestern border war inherited the spiritual posture of their predecessors but had their own distinctive feelings about their own war.