The Artistic Features of Ai Qing's Selected Poems

Ai Qing, 19 10 was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province on March 27th, and died of illness at 4 am on May 5th, 1996, at the age of 86, a modern writer and poet. He used to be the vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, the vice chairman of the International Pen Center, and the winner of the highest medal of French literature and art 1985. Ai Qing's works generally describe symbolic things such as the sun, torches and dawn, showing Ai Qing's hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. In form, his poems don't stick to appearance, pay little attention to rhyme and uniformity of lines, but use regular parallelism and repetition, resulting in a change of unity. Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th New Literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and has become an important achievement in the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style. It not only embodies the author's artistic talent, but also bears in mind his serious and arduous artistic practice. In his poems, full enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring distinctive features. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image, and with the end of the poem, this image is completed. Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas.