culture

Amid the brisk mass literature creation activities, hundreds of poems were created and published on September 9 on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK.

The poems “First lesson”, “My home address”, “O builders, my age-mates”, “Another railway” and “It is clear today, too” deeply impressed the readers as they sing of the breath of the country and the era with poetic words of sincere emotion.

The poem “First lesson” by Im Hong Yon reflects the first lesson that children from the flood-hit areas took in a well-furnished classroom in the building for ensuring important national events after coming to Pyongyang under the benevolent care of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the state.

It is inevitable that the schooling for students who lost their homes and schools owing to natural disasters is interrupted. But the poet used simple and impressive poetic words to sing of the feeling of the teacher who did not repress her emotion before the clear eyes of the students who had the lesson in the new classroom, which had been prepared thanks to the measures taken by General Secretary Kim Jong Un, free from any slightest worry.

The poem “My home address” by Han Ji Song sings highly of the feelings of the people who are always convinced of the hopeful future as the General Secretary gave field guidance again for the rehabilitation of flood-hit areas to defend all members of the great socialist family and bring happiness to them after the residents of an flood-hit islet village were taken to an airfield and temporary tents and many people of other flood-stricken areas as well as those of the islet village were brought to Pyongyang to spend happy days.

The poem “O builders, my age-mates” by Kim Kang Chol fully expresses amazing scenes of the capital city of Pyongyang, where a golden age of construction has been ushered in, and the joy and optimism of the builders about the bright future.

Ri Ji Yong, a girl worker of the Rason Railway Bureau located at one end of the country, depicts in her poem “Another railway” the life of a trackwalker who has devoted his patriotic fervour to his work for more than 40 years since his youth through what she experienced in life.

Choe Hak Rim, who wrote the poem “It is clear today, too”, expressed in it his pride in producing salt at the salt works associated with his father’s strenuous effort and his love for his workplace and native place. Seeing the blue sky of the country and the endless salt field, the poet sang of his love for the country with sincere emotions.

The General Secretary read the poems created by the ordinary working people, though he was so busy with the state affairs.