2. Artistic conception: In artistic conception, this poem shows the characteristics that Ai Qing is good at exerting rich imagination. Although he has never been to the north of China before, the image of a China farmer wearing a fur hat and driving a carriage in the snow is intimate and familiar. According to himself, someone asked him if he had seen this phenomenon, and his answer was: "I feel it should be like this." This "feeling" is the image created by imagination. Of course, this does not prove that we can build a car behind closed doors without living, but that poets should let the wings of imagination fly on the soil of real life. A person without rich imagination will never become an excellent poet. However, Ai Qing's imagination is based on his familiarity with the life and fate of farmers, so he is fundamentally different from that kind of unfounded imagination and artistic shoddy.
3. Ideological and artistic value: The life picture that the poet imagined on the land of China constitutes a heartbreaking tragic picture in front of people. The "unkempt young woman", the "old mother" and the "cultivator" who lost livestock and fields are all crowded in the dirty alleys that despair of life, and the hungry earth faces the dark sky. Admittedly, this image in Ai Qing's works may be too sad and miserable. However, if we consider history realistically, we have to admit that all these are "cruel facts". Moreover, the atmosphere of this poem and the tragic scene it depicts are exactly what the author feels and experiences in reality, which makes him feel sad and worried. Expressing all this by artistic means shows the poet's concern for the fate of the times and his empathy for the people's sufferings.
4. Language features: Ai Qing's poetic language is not a simple emotional externalization, but is inseparable from his inner life. It forms a vivid and tangible life of poetry as a whole. Many critics say that this poem has the beauty of prose, which just shows its plain and natural artistic characteristics. It has no traces of carving and decoration, and almost no tangible skills can be seen. The so-called beauty of prose also shows the strong elasticity and tension of poetic language, which extends the situation of poetry to a far border and has a profound and vast feeling. This is the atmosphere of poetry. Although the words "cold" and "blockade" are concise, they are full of flexibility and expressiveness. They contain profound historical and realistic thinking, which adds great weight to the image and connotation of this poem. This weight is an unshirkable burden, which falls fatally on the poet's heart, causing deep tremors ── this is the cold weight of snow falling on the land of China.
5. Image characteristics: Image is the basic element of poetic image composition, the unity of the poet's inner feelings and the external image of life, and the tangible scene created by the poet through the integration of "meaning" and "image". Ai Qing's poems were written in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. When the country was in crisis and the mountains and rivers fell, it inevitably brought the tragic atmosphere of that era. Therefore, the images in his poems are bound to have this tragic color. From the images of "land", "wind" and "river", we can easily taste the ups and downs and bitterness experienced by the author, as well as the deep love for the motherland, the people and the land. "Land" is a common image of Ai Qing, which can be said to be his other life. He lamented the barrenness of the land: "Snow falls on the land of China,/Cold blocks China ……" The "land" here is no longer a simple objective scenery, but an "image" that focuses on the author's subjective feelings. The author feels extremely sad for the old, weak and sick motherland. When the poet looked around with melancholy eyes, the carrier of lonely and barren wasteland-land entered the poet's mind. By praising the "image" of the land, the author curses those who destroy it and fantasizes that the land can be full of vitality. In the poem, the author's voice is hoarse but generous, sad but broad, showing a strong sense of life; Although simple, it is vigorous, because land is the foundation of all things. It is precisely because of this love and attachment to the land that the other two images in the poet's works flow downstream. The modifier "like an old woman who is too sad" is added behind the wind, and adjectives "time" and "snowy night" are added in front of the river, which turns the two external pure scenery of the wind and the river into images containing the author's subjective feelings, making them appear in forests, rivers and wilderness on cold nights (not only for their own lives, it can be seen that the use of images in poetry can make abstract emotions tangible and arouse our rich associations and imaginations, so as to observe.