The summer of 1927 produced by Rain Lane was the darkest time in the history of China. The bloody slaughter of revolutionaries by reactionaries caused a white terror that enveloped the whole country. Young people who enthusiastically responded to the revolution suddenly fell from the climax of the fire into the abyss of the night. Some of them can't find the future of revolution. They are lost in pain, they long for new hope in disappointment, and they expect beautiful rainbows floating in the haze. Rain Lane reflects the mentality of some progressive young people. Dai Wangshu was only twenty-one or twenty-two years old when he wrote this poem. 1927 In March, he was arrested and detained by the reactionary authorities for propagating the revolution. After the "April 12th" coup, he lived in seclusion in Songjiang, Jiangsu Province, chewing "China people's distress in this era" in loneliness. (Preface to Wang Shucao) His poems such as Rain Lane at this time are naturally full of feelings of hesitation, disappointment, sadness and pain. This feeling of hesitation and sadness can't be said to be a pure personal lament, but a projection of the darkness of reality and the disillusionment of ideals in the poet's heart.
Ai Qing's poems have a unique world of aesthetic images, and his poems are repeatedly echoed with melancholy tones. Not only poems like I Love This Land and Snow Falls on the Land of China are full of deep sadness, but even poems praising the light like Towards the Sun are always mixed with melancholy and sadness. For Ai Qing, "farmer's melancholy" and "tramp's mentality" are the main characteristics of his emotional world.
Ai Qing is good at capturing images accurately and appropriately, giving them a wide range of symbolic meanings, making poems more profound and rich, making people think and remember, such as Snow Falling in China. He attaches great importance to the integration of sound and color, and constructs novel images through the integration of the two, thus achieving the unique situation of poems such as The Trumpet and the Torch. He is good at using color rendering and even composing the arrangement of lines to increase the vividness of the image, such as "Handcart".
Ai Qing's poems have the beauty of prose. Many of his poems don't rhyme, but let feelings flow freely and infect readers through inner passion.