In Torch, Ai Qing mainly describes Downey, a female image, and shows the changes of her thoughts and feelings on the night of the torch parade. At that time, people had different reactions to this poem, some were positive and some were critical.
Most of the criticisms are directed at Donnie's love experience in his poems, among which Bi Yan's criticism is more striking, and Ai Qing also specifically responded to it.
In her comments on Ai Qing's Torch, Bi Yan criticized the theme of women's choice of revolution and love in Torch. He thinks that you should fall in love after the revolution, or you should give up love after the revolution, because love is harmful to the revolution.
Ai Qing, on the other hand, thinks that revolution and love can be unified, and insists that "love after revolution" or "love after revolution" is a mechanistic and formalistic view.
The creative characteristics of the extended material Ai Qing.
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.
Ai Qing, starting from his love for rural working people and approaching their demands, has been presenting his most authentic poems to them for more than ten years.
References:
The Integration of Aesthetics and Utilitarianism —— On the Love Writing in Ai Qing's Torch
Baidu Encyclopedia _ Ai Qing