The image of the sun shows the other side of the poet's soul: the passionate pursuit of light, ideal and a better life. In the poet's eyes, the eternal theme of "the sun" symbolizes the bright future of China and China's belief in victory. It contains the poet's yearning and pursuit for light, ideal and a better life.
Ai Qing's melancholy is not negative. Facing the deep darkness of the motherland, his heart is full of sadness and hardship. What he gives readers is a "deep" power, which shows his persistent pursuit and firm belief in a better life.
Ai Qing showed his innate sadness and melancholy when he felt and expressed people's suffering. As a singer who always writes for the nation to get rid of all kinds of bondage, Ai Qing's "melancholy" complex mainly comes from three aspects: objective reality, subjective emotion and symbolism. This is also the characteristic of Ai Qing's poems.