The main content of "Torch" by Ai Qing: It mainly describes Downey, a female image, and shows the changes of her thoughts and feelings during the torch parade night. At that time, people reacted differently to this poem, some were positive and some were critical. The target of criticism mostly points to Donnie's love experience in the poem, among which Bi Yan's criticism is more eye-catching, and Ai Qing also specifically responded to it. In Comments on Ai Qing's Torch, Bi Yan criticized the theme of Torch for women's choice of revolution and love. He thought that love should be made after revolution, or love should be given up after revolution, because love is harmful to revolution.
Ai Qing, on the other hand, thinks that revolution and love can be unified, and insisting on "love after revolution" or "love after revolution" is the view of mechanism and formalism. When talking about this poem, Zhu Ziqing said: "This poem describes the torch parade, which is the performance of the public's strength, and ending with a story of love may be less symmetrical in structure. However, it is worthy of special attention to indicate a tendency to make private life public without being formulaic. " Zhu Ziqing thinks that the writing of love in Torch is just right between privatization and publicity, and affirms the writing of love in Torch.