Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas. Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th New Literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and has become an important achievement in the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style.
This not only reflects the author's artistic talent, but also bears in mind his serious and arduous artistic practice. In his poems, the full enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring something different.
The theme of Ai Qing's Selected Poems;
1. In ancient times, the theme image of Ai Qing's poems was considered to be the unity of mind and matter, the integration of scene and subject. In western modernist theory, image is regarded as a purely subjective product, and Ai Qing is more influenced by western romanticism and is a concrete feeling.
2. The central images in Ai Qing's poems are the land and the sun.
The image of land reflects the poet's love for the motherland and mother earth, as well as his deep sense of anxiety about the fate of the motherland. Patriotism is an inexhaustible theme in Ai Qing's works, and his I Love This Land is the most incisive expression of this feeling.