From the other side of the stream of human death, the sleeping mountains are shocking. If the steam wheel flies over the sand dunes, the sun will roll towards me ... It breathes life with indescribable light, makes tall trees dance with it, and makes the river sing crazy songs towards it.
During this period, the main images in Ai Qing's poems were "earth" and "light". His long poems "To the Sun" and "Torch" express his good wish to drive away darkness, persist in struggle and strive for victory with the help of the sun, so the poet is called the singer of "Sun" and "Torch".
Ai Qing for the sun
These poems are also representatives of free verse, showing the characteristics of conciseness and liveliness, showing a prose and colloquial style. They contain a lot of questions, calls, dialogues and quotations, which greatly enhance the authenticity and expressiveness of poetry.
The sun is a symbol in this poem. The realistic theme of this poem is to arouse feelings, exert imagination, obtain images, condense them into images, and then hint them from the symbolic object-the sun. The writing of this symbol is conducive to expressing the incredible longing and yearning for life.