What are the images commonly used in Ai Qing's poems, and how do you understand their connotations?

Ai Qing's poems have a unique world of aesthetic images, and his poems are repeatedly echoed with melancholy tones. Not only poems like I Love This Land and Snow Falls on the Land of China are full of deep sadness, but even poems praising the light like Towards the Sun are always mixed with melancholy and sadness. For Ai Qing, "farmer's melancholy" and "tramp's mentality" are the main characteristics of his emotional world.

Ai Qing is good at capturing images accurately and appropriately, giving them a wide range of symbolic meanings, making poems more profound and rich, making people think and remember, such as Snow Falling in China. He attaches great importance to the integration of sound and color, and constructs novel images through the integration of the two, thus achieving the unique situation of poems such as The Trumpet and the Torch. He is good at using color rendering and even composing the arrangement of lines to increase the vividness of the image, such as "Handcart".

Ai Qing's poems have the beauty of prose. Many of his poems don't rhyme, but let feelings flow freely and infect readers through inner passion.