Two periods before liberation and after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Before liberation, Ai Qing cursed the darkness and praised the light with his deep, passionate and unrestrained writing.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we continued to praise the people, praise the light, and think about life.
"The Sun", in this modern poem by Ai Qing, the image is the sun. The image of the sun represents Ai Qing's unremitting pursuit of ideals, light, and a better life. From an aesthetic point of view, Ai Qing always sings: sun, dawn, spring, light, life and flame. This is the "eternal theme" in Ai Qing's poetry.
The central image of "I Love This Land" is land. "I love this land deeply." This simple poem vividly expresses Ai Qing's complex about the motherland, the people and the land. This is a profound spirit of patriotism. Judging from the situation in China at that time, this kind of thinking was a typical representative of the Chinese people at that time.
Ai Qing’s poems contain strong patriotism and longing for a better life, bright and ideal thoughts and emotions, and their “prose beauty” has pushed his poems to the peak of modern Chinese free-style poetry.