In the Chinese community, patriotism had been a strong sentiment, but this sentiment had not been shown openly among the Chinese. Thus, this article aimed to identify the patrotic sentiments of the Chinese community in the Malay poems by applying relevance theory pioneered by Sperber and Wilson (1986). This is a qualitative study. Three poems written by Lim Swee Tin (LST), a famous Malaysian poet were analysed. Poetic lines in the poems that manifested the patriotic sentiments were identified from corpora and they were further analysed with relevance theory. Findings of the study showed that data consisting the patriotic sentiments practised by the Chinese were identified in LST’s poems. The results also showed that there were implicit meanings behind the data analysed and the implied meanings and messages had been found to be in relevance with the values and cultures practised in the Chinese community. Not only that, the study also highlighted the importance of relevance theory in analysing the data as results obtained were more theoretical, academic and of high validity. Thus, the results obtained were not only undisputed, but it also an add-on to the existing facts, understanding and knowledge to the Chinese community particularly on the culture of Chinese community.