Ai Qing pays attention to the capture of images, which is poetic and implicit, and rarely expresses his mind directly. The images in Ai Qing's poems are the combination of his subjective feelings and objective images, which leads to a kind of poetry.
Ai Qing's poems are thought-provoking and memorable because the images are accurately captured. Although there is no room for expressing feelings, because of the symbolic and associative functions of the images themselves, this is where his poems are higher than ordinary free poems. Even the trumpeter image in narrative poems still contains certain symbolic significance.
Although Ai Qing's poems are informal, they attach great importance to skill and artistry.
Guo Moruo's Goddess is the representative work of China's free poetry.
Guo Moruo learned poetry from western romantic poetry, and in the broad poetic style of getting rid of all the old styles, he introduced the free style and the poetic style of metaphor and symbol used in modern western poetry, which was induced and imitated by American poet Whitman.
Guo Moruo can be called "Shelley of China", "the darling of nature, the believer of pantheism and the athlete of revolutionary thought", and he regards poetry as his free life.
There are many metrical poems (some of which are not strict) in Guo's collection of poems Goddess, most of which are antithetical. Like the temptation of death.
In the history of the development of China's new poetry, Ai Qing is another poet who promoted the poetic style of a generation after Guo Moruo and Wen Yiduo, with great influence. He also enjoys a reputation in the world. 1985, France awarded Ai Qing the highest medal of literature and art.