On the surface, the whole poem is about an old horse, which is under pressure and suffering and has to struggle forward under the whip. The old horse here is also a microcosm of the image of many humiliated farmers in the old society. They are honest and kind, but they are oppressed but do not know how to resist. It shows the poet's sympathy for the oppressed unconscious peasants.
This is the language part of the 2009 Zhejiang college entrance examination simulation paper.