Tree is a modern poem written by the modern poet Ai Qing in the spring of 1940. The moral of this poem is various, because the images it uses can have many meanings.
The poet created the artistic conception with the help of the image of tree, a natural thing. Through this perceptual image, the rational understanding of reality has become the concept in the poem.
Ai Qing endowed the trees that grew on the earth with vivid characters, and regarded them as a symbol that a great nation was uniting and condensing into a powerful force.
Creative background:
The tree was written in the spring of 1940. At this time, the war has lasted for more than two years and is becoming a difficult deadlock. This national war is giving all the people a baptism, making their souls undergo severe tempering in the war and gradually moving towards spiritual awakening. Ai Qing, the author, is sensitive to the times and social trends and realizes that the Chinese nation has awakened. This poem expresses that as a great nation, it is uniting to form a powerful force and standing in front of the world with a brand-new mental outlook.
It expresses the author's yearning and ardent pursuit of an ideal and beautiful life, his hatred of darkness, his praise and yearning for light, his attachment to material poverty but spiritual abundance, his praise for the people, his praise for light and his thinking about life.