As the most representative poet in China in the 1940s, his poems condensed the profound theme about the land and the sun in sadness, and realized the historical synthesis in art, which blended ancient poetry, modern western poetry, left-wing poetry and modernism.
Historical position and stage
Ai Qing became famous for Dayan River-My Mother in 34 years, and was called a flute player. Since then, he has shown a conscious integration of world trends, national themes and personal temperament, but he is more influenced by the western poetic style. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was transformed into a trumpeter poet, who wrote a collection of poems "The North" and a long poem "Towards the Sun" to explore ways to express the national voice with new poems.
His poems had a direct influence on the July poets in the 1940s, and the rest repeatedly expressed their maturity under the influence of love and consciously took Ai Qing as the banner. Mu Dan, the representative of China New Poetry School, was obviously influenced by Ai Qing. His poems have a great influence on foreign countries, especially Japanese progressive youth.
On the one hand, it completed the task of historical synthesis, adhered to the content tradition of the realistic revolutionary struggle of the left-wing poets in China Poetry Society, on the other hand, it absorbed the achievements of modernist poets in creative techniques. Its techniques present the internal unity of China's classical poetry and western modern impressionism.
Characteristics of Ai Qing's Poems
The content is characterized by singing a deep and warm carol with a sad emotional tone.
The artistic conception of his poems, that is, the feelings that surround his poems repeatedly, is sad and melancholy, which constitutes "Ai Qing's melancholy". Its early performance is wandering feelings, which is the combination of the poet's personal situation and the western literary trend of thought. Later, in the Anti-Japanese War, I increased my thinking about the country, the nation and the times, and then rose to the level of deep love. These fits together constitute the overall characteristics of Ai Qing's poems.
The common images in his poems are the earth and the sun. Land represents patriotism and love for the motherland, and also represents Ai Qing's recognition and concern for his simple workers, which can be seen in Dayan River-my mother and I love this land. The image of the sun represents the poet's pursuit of light and ideals, such as the longing for the sun and dawn.
Its artistic characteristics are two aspects, one is the image construction of impression, and the other is the poetic style of free verse.
His creation usually starts with a moment's feelings and impressions, and then penetrates with subjective feelings. In the fusion of the two, he created a clear and sometimes symbolic visual image, full of rich light and color, but also contains profound meaning. This shows the connection between Ai Qing's poetry and western impressionist painting and poetry, and also has something in common with the aesthetic principle of using images in ancient Chinese poetry.
His creation adopts the style of freedom and pursues the beauty of prose, because the freedom of poetic style can better adapt to the turbulent and fierce times, and prose is fresher and purely human. However, its free body can use regular parallelism and repetition in obvious freedom to achieve harmony in jagged.
His poetry is a historic achievement of mainstream free poetry during the Anti-Japanese War.