Ai Qing's poem "Torch" was written in early May of 1940, which is the most outstanding and influential of his 10 narrative poems. "Torch" was written by Ai Qing when he was waiting to go to Chongqing in Xin 'an, Hunan after he left Guilin. This poem comes directly from1the torch parade held in Guilin on July 7th, 939 to commemorate the second anniversary of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. At that time, the parade was huge. "More than ten thousand people (more than thirty thousand people-the author) gathered in Gongxian Stadium with torches. When the torch was lit, the fire in the audience was as bright as day. " Ai Qing took part in the parade in Guilin and was greatly shocked.
In Torch, Ai Qing mainly describes Downey, a female image, and shows the changes of her thoughts and feelings on the night of the torch parade. At that time, people had different reactions to this poem, some were positive and some were critical. Most of the criticism points to Donnie's love experience in his poems. Among them, Bi Yan's criticism is more striking, and Ai Qing specifically responded to it.
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Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th New Literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and has become an important achievement in the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style. This not only reflects the author's artistic talent, but also bears in mind his serious and arduous artistic practice. In his poems, the full enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring something different. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image, and with the end of the poem, this image is completed. Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas. ?
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.
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