⑴ Ai Qing's poetic creation before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War: When the poetic styles of Crescent School and Modernist School (later decadent school) permeated the poetic world, young poets such as Ai Qing, Tian Tian and Cang Kejia brought a fresh wind to the poetic world. From 65438 to 0932, he wrote eight poems in prison, such as Dayan River-My Nanny, which later became his first collection of poems. In addition, the poet wrote many short poems in his early days, among which Sun, Spring and Dawn constitute a group of poems that yearn for light and praise ideals.
Ai Qing's early poems initially formed his unique artistic style, with deep melancholy, simple and vivid language and free form. On the one hand, he expressed the curse of the old world and sympathy for the working people. On the other hand, he also expressed his yearning for revolution and light.
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is the climax of the poet's creation. During this period, the poet's vision expanded and the theme of poetry deepened. Short poems include North, Poems for the Country, Yuan Ye, Dawn Notice, etc. During this period, the poet combined the melancholy of the motherland's suffering with the light and the joy of the ideal, and his understanding of the motherland's suffering was deeper and his understanding of the light was gradually deepened.
The Anti-Japanese War was the golden age of Ai Qing's poetry creation, which established his position in the history of literature. Since the new period, it is the second peak of his creation, and his masterpiece Ode to Light.