Appreciation of Ai Qing's poem Torch:
Ai Qing's poem Torch, written in early May 194, is the most outstanding and influential of his more than 1 narrative poems. "Torch" was written by Ai Qing when he was waiting to go to Chongqing in Xin 'an, Hunan Province after he left Guilin. This poem came directly from the torch parade held in Guilin on July 7, 1939 to commemorate the second anniversary of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. At that time, the parade scene was huge. "More than 1, people (say more than 3,-the author) holding the torch gathered in Gongx Stadium. When the torch was lit, the whole audience was full of flames, as bright as day." Ai Qing took part in the parade when he was in Guilin and was greatly shocked.
In Torch, Ai Qing mainly describes Downey, a female image, and shows the changes of her thoughts and feelings during the torch parade night. At that time, people reacted differently to this poem, some were positive and some were critical. The target of criticism mostly points to Donnie's love experience in the poem. Among them, Bi Yan's criticism is more noticeable, and Ai Qing specially responded to it.
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Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th New Literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and has become an important gain in the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style. This not only reflects the author's artistic talent, but also bears in mind his serious and arduous artistic practice. In his poems, full enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring distinctiveness. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image, and with the end of the poem, the image will be completed. Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas. ?
Ai Qing's poems are not constrained by appearance in form, paying little attention to the rhyme and the uniformity of words and lines, but using regular parallelism and repetition, resulting in a changing unity.
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