"Without you, the sun, all life will crawl in the dark, even if it has wings, it can only fly in the eternal night like a bat ..." This magnificent and memorable sentence comes from Ai Qing's To the Sun, just like mellow wine. Only by savoring it carefully can we understand the mystery: "the sun" is just the sun that appears in the sky day after day? Do "black" and "night" just mean no light? Does "bat" only refer to the spirit of the night?
Of course not! "The sun" refers to all beautiful people and beautiful things. Their beauty is like the light of the sun, pure, bright, thorough and great, like a golden torrent, which impacts the "dark" old society and "dark" people with irresistible ideas and turns the world from "night" to "dawn" ...
Ai Qing's style is not as ironic and humorous as Lu Xun's, but more poetic. Under the poetic rendering, people feel that there are irresistible forces surging, such as unruly fierce horses breaking free from chains and heading for a free paradise.
Many of his poems are about the sun, such as Sunshine in the Distance, To the Sun, Words from the Sun and For the Sun … Why? In my opinion, it is because the sun is the representative of light, shining brilliantly, shining all darkness, without mercy and selflessness. Ai Qing, a poet, longs for more and more people to be like the sun, to make the dark times bright and the turbulent times stable.
In addition, there are many themes, but the whole is like a giant prose poem, scattered in form rather than in spirit. Sincere praise, ruthless criticism, cold denunciation and melancholy sigh are all in it, pointing to truth, goodness, beauty, hope, crying, light and rebirth. He is a poet who laments and praises. Land and sky, suffering and hope, light and shadow, cold and burning can all be seen in his poems.
His anxiety, compassion and cry for the reality of the motherland made his poems more profound and broad, as Ai Qing said in On Poetry: "Personal pain and joy must be integrated with the pain and joy of the times; The bitterness and joy of the times must also be combined with personal bitterness and joy. "
His words are calm and concise, and there are many cautionary sentences, such as "If there is no light in the world, people have no eyes" ("Ode to Light") "Let's win again, let's advance in victory."
He used oil painting-like colors and symbolic words such as "sun", "torch" and "land" to inject the call sign, life emotion and even spiritual blood into his poems, which made his poems have an epic special temperament, as the poet Han Niu praised: "It has a sense of overall mobility, which is the ups and downs and rhythms of a river's life".
"This river is always surging with our grief and indignation/this restless wind blowing endlessly/and the incomparably gentle dawn from the forest ..." "Declining banks ... vast Ye Ping ... brown forest ... terrible red ring ... the sunny distance ..." Ai Qing integrated suffering, hope, what he saw and heard into his poetry creation. His poems, like his attitude towards life, are always full of sincerity. He hates not only illusory romanticism without true feelings, but also naturalism that is indifferent to life and stands by. Reading a few of his poems will naturally show this, so the authenticity of his poems is beyond doubt. His poems always have the meaning of struggle and inspire people to forge ahead; His poems represent an era and make people feel the pulse of the times; His poems represent the voice of a nation that never slackens even if it is hoarse!