Why Ai Qing's Selected Poems is a must-read?

The reasons why Ai Qing's poetry anthology is a must-read masterpiece are as follows:

Artistic feature

Ai Qing's poems have unique images and themes: the main images are the land and the sun, and the theme is patriotism, which has a very dignified, profound and atmospheric style.

2. Ai Qing's poems have melancholy mood: "Melancholy" is one of the basic elements that constitute the artistic characteristics of Ai Qing's poems, and he is good at expressing strong feelings by capturing impressions and feelings.

3. Changes in the style of writing before and after: (in the early stage) the free verse style of prose: clear spoken language, poetic lines close to prose, simple and natural form, not limited to appearance, and the characteristics of free verse are very obvious; Later poems became neat, poetic sentiment became deep and poetic sentiment became alarming.

Ai Qing's poems have the characteristics of "painting in poetry": his poems are bright in color, clear in lines, unpretentious and dignified as sketches.

theme

The central image of Ai Qing's poems is the land and the sun, and the theme is patriotism. "Land-Farmers" and "Sunshine" are the recurring core image series in his works, which often lead the emotion of poetry to the level of overall symbol.

They embody the basic themes of poetry: deep concern for the fate of rural areas and farmers in China, unremitting pursuit of light and warmth and all good things, and deep and burning patriotic feelings combine them.

Reading enlightenment

The reason why Ai Qing's poems shine with eternal light and exuberant vitality stems from his experience and persistence in grass-roots life, from Ai Qing's ardent patriotism and patriotic feelings, and from Ai Qing's simple true feelings.

Brief introduction of the author

Ai Qing, whose real name is Jiang Haicheng. Use pen names Ega, Kea, Linbi, etc. Born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, he is a modern writer, poet and painter.

Creative characteristics

Ai Qing's works generally describe symbolic things such as the sun, torches and dawn, showing Ai Qing's hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. Ai Qing, starting from his love for rural working people and approaching their demands, has been presenting his most authentic poems to them for more than ten years.

Ai Qing's poems do not stick to appearances in form, and pay little attention to rhyme and uniformity of lines, but use regular parallelism and repetition to create a unified change.