What are the similarities and differences between Yu Xiang and Ai Qing's poems?

Similarities: Melancholy is a common emotion in the two works. This is closely related to their times, their temperament, personality and the influence of their culture. It seems similar, but the former is more yearning and the latter is more disappointed.

Difference:

Rain Lane is Dai Wangshu's famous work. This poem, written in 1927, is destined to bear the memories of that era-stormy summer, gloomy and narrow rain lane, lonely man wandering alone, girl sad as cloves. Gray walls, bluestone paths and purple confusion are meaningful memories left by the poet. No matter whether the characters in Rain Lane reveal the sadness of the times or the depression of personal feelings, the emotional experience this poem gives us is a kind of implicit beauty with China classical color. This kind of beauty makes us quiet and immersed in purple melancholy.

Before liberation, Ai Qing cursed the darkness and eulogized the light with deep, intense and unrestrained brushwork. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he continued to praise the people, praise the light and think about life. His songs "Return" are more extensive in content, deeper in thought, deeper in emotion, more diverse in techniques and more sophisticated in art. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, his poems are Cheers, Gem Red Star, Cape, Spring, Song of Return, Colorful Poems, Exotic Poems, Snow Lotus and Ai Qing. Ai Qing became an outstanding person with his singing style full of artistic individuality, and practiced his poetic aesthetic proposition of "simplicity, simplicity, concentration and liveliness". His poems are usually full of the fighting spirit of the May 4th Movement and full of enterprising spirit.