Street performers, beggars, mending women, wheelbarrows, sad north, misty wilderness and barren fields ... The images of suffering he wrote infiltrated into deep, grayish yellow and gloomy cold colors, causing suggestibility and bringing readers a gloomy and depressed feeling, which fully showed the tragic beauty and gloomy beauty of a beautiful thing being destroyed. This is the condensation of Ai Qing's patriotic feelings and feelings for the people.
Ai Qing is a conscious pursuer of symbolic images. He wrote a lot of imagery poems. Through a lot of research, we can find that the symbolic images in Ai Qing's poems can be divided into figurative symbolic images and extended symbolic images, among which figurative symbolic images include public figurative symbolic images and private figurative symbolic images. The extended symbolic image has the characteristics of self-comparison, implication and philosophy.