"Selected Poems of Ai Qing" reading notes 1
"Selected Poems of Ai Qing" is an anthology of Ai Qing's poems. The poems in it were written by Ai Qing after experiencing the May 4th Movement. From the style of poetry, we can see that Mr. Ai Qing was passionate, unrestrained, and enterprising before liberation, opposing darkness and praising light; after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he continued to praise the people and praise light.
Before the May 4th War, the poems Ai Qing wrote generally described symbolic things such as the sun, torches, and dawns, showing Ai Qing’s hatred of the darkness and terror of the old society and his love for the dawn. The yearning and pursuit of bright expectations. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ai Qing's poems continued to praise the people's labor resources in a wider range of ways, with richer thoughts, deeper emotions, more diverse techniques, and more sophisticated art.
From Ai Qing’s patriotism, I thought that there were still many patriots emerging in China at that time
Xu Beihong was born in a poor family. Xu Beihong started painting in elementary school. In 1919, Xu Beihong went to Paris for further study. At that time, backward Chinese overseas students were bullied. After that, Xu Beihong worked hard to study and was determined to bring glory to his motherland. Xu Beihong's painting exhibition in 1924 caused a sensation and shocked the entire art world.
Since his youth, Lu Xun has set his grand ambition to recommend Xuanyuan with his own blood. This proves that ambition does not matter when he is young, and he consciously dedicated everything he had to the cause of liberation.
He pointed his eyebrows at thousands of people with cold eyebrows, and bowed his head to the famous sayings that were praised among the children. What you eat is grass and what you squeeze out is milk. After Lu Xun's death, the people across the country presented him with the banner of national soul. This is the people's fair and appropriate evaluation of him.
This is the patriotism of Lu Xun and Xu Beihong, and we can learn from their qualities: the wisdom of youth is the wisdom of the country. If young people are strong, the country will be strong. The expectations of a GJ are all on our young people. Therefore, students study hard to build our motherland more perfectly, so that a prosperous, democratic, and polite China will always stand among the world's powerful countries.
"Selected Poems of Ai Qing" Reading Notes 2
Hold "Selected Poems of Ai Qing" in your hands and feel the traces of modern history.
Behind the orange book cover is the strength and bravery of Chinese men. Their unyielding spirit is deeply imprinted in our hearts. All the crimes committed by the ferocious and cruel imperial powers against our Ming family will never be erased. Ai Qing tells the sadness of history with his vigorous and powerful poems.
"Spring" by Ai Qing: It's spring, and the peach blossoms in Longhua are blooming, blooming in those nights, those blood-spotted nights, those nights are rust-free, those nights are decorated with wind, Those nights I listened to the widow's sobs, and this ancient land was like a hungry beast at any time, sweetly sucking the blood of young people and the blood of stubborn sons. So after the long winter, after the ice and snow, Season, after endless sleepy expectations, these bloodstains, stains of blood, in the mythical night, in the deep black night of the east, burst into countless buds, embellishment of spring everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River.
People ask: Where does spring come from? I said: From the tombs in the suburbs. The author compares the victory of the war to spring, using multiple words, and comparing the land to a beast, sucking blood, which can describe the enemy's cruelty, fierceness, and heavy casualties from the side, showing the hard-won victory of the war. Bought with the blood of countless soldiers, it expresses Ai Qing's praise and admiration for the brave, fearless, persevering and patriotic soldiers.
Each poem written by Ai Qing tells a story, expressing praise for the qualities of soldiers and hatred of war. Finally, he appealed to people for peace and opposition to war. Reading Ai Qing's poems and reciting Ai Qing's sentences, a strong sense of patriotism surged into my heart. Scenes of war flashed before my eyes, and I couldn't help but clenched my fists.
Like Ai Qing, I want brave and fearless people to be our role models. Let us stand up and fight anyway. We should not be tainted by filth in the world of interests. We must maintain a simple and kind heart.
"Selected Poems of Ai Qing" Reading Notes 3
It took two days to read "Selected Poems of Ai Qing" and copied several poems. The overall feeling is that his poetry itself is very inconsistent with people's evaluation of him (or his status in the history of poetry). Most of his poems are not very good, and only a few of them are pretty good. It is said that he should not occupy such a high position in the history of poetry because the personal characteristics of his poetry are not distinctive enough and the style of his poetry is very common and ordinary poetry. He did not provide many new ideas for new Chinese poetry. things, so the contribution is limited.
After reading Mu Dan’s poems, I said that his poems are similar to Du Fu’s and can be said to be the history of poetry. So compared with Ai Qing’s poems, Ai Qing’s poems deserve the term history of poetry. His The characteristic of the poem can be said to be that the subject matter is very broad, but relatively concentrated. In summary, it can be said that it writes about the joy and pain of the poor and backward China in that era. He went from the Kuomintang-controlled areas to the rear area, from the countryside to the front line, and from the woods. In the wilderness, everything is shown in his writing, so it is very important to say that he recorded such an era.
But it is a pity that his records lack personality, or the poetic quality is not enough, at least in many poems. Therefore, the cognitive value and historical value of these poems are not low, but the value of poetry is relatively low. Even his famous long poems such as "Toward the Sun", "Torch", "Hymn to Light", etc., are not exceptionally outstanding in my opinion.
Another characteristic of Ai Qing’s poems is that people like to use adverbs of degree, such as then, ten, etc., and when describing things, they use sound, color, and shape to describe and list things from all aspects. The same is true at all times, so this leads to the third characteristic of his poetry, extravagance. He likes to use parallel sentences, sometimes even six or seven identical sentence patterns, such as "Dayan River - My Nanny". However, his descriptions and metaphors have a shortcoming, that is, there are not many novel ones, and they often use things that are often familiar to everyone. This makes his poems lack something personal, but this may be the reason why his poems are widely spread. The reason is because such poetry is popular, not aristocratic, and is easier for the public to understand and appreciate, and it is easier to get official recognition.
It is undeniable that some of Ai Qing's poems are very excellent, such as "Snow Falls on the Land of China". He wrote that the famished earth stretched out its trembling arms toward the dark sky to beg for help. . "Reef", its face and body feel like being slashed with a knife, but it still stands there with a smile, looking at the ocean. What a moving image!
Ai Qing's poems are simple and smooth, but not very good. It pays attention to technique and does not pay attention to changes in expression, which also affects its aesthetic quality.