Content of "Drilling in the Snow":
This black Ma Jun is beautiful and alert, and its shiny black body is as smooth as a black satin.
Two ears stand upright, like two newly cut bamboo tubes with black paint.
four legs are upright and stable like four steel columns.
the feet and hooves are white and clean, as if they were covered with snow.
drill in the snow, my horse, on the plain of the motherland, on the vast humiliated land.
running and jumping, galloping like a whirlwind across the valley.
Poetic background
Drilling in the Snow reflects Ai Qing's deepening understanding of the theme of fate in the war: the war horse "drilling in the snow" and "I" are linked because of accidental war, and an attack to complete the task is full of dramatic effects and legends. Its romantic, lyrical and symbolic techniques are a vivid portrayal of Ai Qing's efforts to adjust his creation.
Drilling in the Snow seems to announce that Ai Qing has changed to show the humanity and clarity of the new world-which is exactly the step that Ai Qing must take to reflect the new world. "Drilling in the Snow" is permeated with the atmosphere of the times, with vigorous brushwork, magnificent momentum and high emotional appeal.
Ai Qing's poetry has a sense of the times and reality, which excludes all kinds of carving and idealization that are isolated from life, and then puts his poetry into the forefront of striving for progressive art.