NGUYEN QUANG THIEU’S DELTA FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF COLLISION BETWEEN ORIGINAL CULTURAL CODES

Abstract

In the journey of Vietnamese poetry innovation, Nguyen Quang Thieu is a bizarre phenomenon: he is bizarre both in his perception and in his writing style. Reading Nguyen Quang Thieu’s poems from the viewpoint of text code interaction, readers will perceive some collision among original cultural codes in a poetic text network: the symbol of the Tonkin culture, the origin of dreamlike deep sources,… In Nguyen Quang Thieu’s poems, readers can contemplate the "exhibition of a national culture", which shows an obsession of the human fate and even an aspiration for liberating the human fate. His poetic thoughts, images and writing style are all reminders of delta space, where there is some woven disorder, chaos, haunting village beliefs, a memory that reconstructs origins, ancestors’ graves that are reminiscent of ones’ homeland. Studying Nguyen Quang Thieu’s poetry from the dialogue between the original cultural codes also means a trend for intercultural aesthetic reception whereby readers can touch original aesthetic feelings, a cultural space brimming with the Vietnamese humanity.