"Red Candle" is divided into three parts. Each part describes the characteristics of Red Candle and its contribution to mankind. "Red Candle" is a famous modern Chinese poetry collection, Wen Yiduo's first poem. The themes are wide-ranging and the content is rich, either expressing the poet's patriotism, criticizing the darkness under feudal rule, reflecting the suffering of working people, or depicting the beauty of nature. The concept is exquisite, the imagination is novel, and the language is vivid.
This poem was written in 1923. The poet was preparing to publish his first collection of poems. When reviewing his exploration of ideals and achievements in poetry over the past few years, he wrote the famous poem "Red Candle" as the preface to the collection of poems of the same name.
The beginning of the poem highlights the image of red candles, which are as red as a child’s heart. Wen Yiduo wants to ask the poets, do you have such sincerity and enthusiasm in your heart? Do you have the courage to express your sincerity and compare it with this red candle? The vivid image of the word "vomit" clearly shows the poet's dedication and sincerity.
This poem has strong romanticism and aestheticism. The poetry emphasizes the rendering of fantasy and subjective emotions in its expression techniques, and uses a large number of lyrical interjections to strongly express the emotions in the heart with beautiful language. In terms of poetry form, the poet pays great attention to the formal beauty of poetry and the rhythm of poetry, so as to be consistent with the emotions to be expressed in the poem, such as: the use of repeated sentences, the rhyme form of traditional Chinese poetry to a certain extent, the back and forth and each stanza. The poems in the poem are relatively neat and so on. The poet's advocacy of rhythm and musicality in new Chinese poetry is reflected in this poem to a certain extent. It can be said that Wen Yiduo integrated ancient and modern Chinese and foreign poetry forms, opened up a generation of Chinese poetry style with strong emotional expression and pursuit spirit, and inspired generations of Chinese poets to cultivate and explore.