The Symbolic Significance of Ai Qing's Sun Image

The image of "the sun" shows the other side of the poet's soul: passionate and endless pursuit of light, ideal and a better life. The poet once said: "Everything that can promote the upward development of mankind is beautiful, kind and poetic." It is from this aesthetic thought that poets have been singing enthusiastically for decades: sun, light, spring, dawn, life and flame. This is Ai Qing's "eternal theme". The best ode to light written in this period is To the Sun and Dawn Notice. To the Sun is a poem with nine sections and four paragraphs. In sections 1 to 3, "I" comes from yesterday: "Yesterday" I lived in a "mental prison" and "I was chased by endless storms and haunted by endless nightmares"-this is a high summary of the fate of the people in old China. In verses 4 to 5, the song of the sun is sung in front. This is a "Song of the Sun" of a "modern city". What the poet wants to pursue and express is a new ideal of a modern society. Therefore, what people get from the sun is: creative labor, democracy, freedom, equality, fraternity and revolution. The sixth to seventh sections eulogize the awakening of the motherland and the rebirth of the people in the new period of the Anti-Japanese Liberation War under the sun. The poet focused on the images of wounded soldiers, girls, workers and soldiers in real life and wrote their new mental outlook. Section 8-9, turn to write your own inner feelings and transform your soul in the new era: bid farewell to loneliness, hesitation and sadness, bravely move towards the sun and move towards a new life. This poem eulogizes the new life brought to the nation by the Anti-Japanese Liberation War from a unique angle. Dawn Notice announces the arrival of a new era in a more optimistic and clear tone: "Please tell them what they are waiting for is coming!" "Here, the poet is a prophet of an era and a caller of an ideal world.