The image of the north

The North is a lyric poem with rich connotations by Ai Qing. This poem expresses the poet's subjective feelings through the description of images. The poet's sympathy for the people's suffering, praise and eulogy for the spirit and strength to overcome suffering have been uniquely expressed in his poems. Based on the understanding of "image" in literary and art circles at home and abroad, this paper analyzes the works from three aspects. First of all, poetry expresses abstraction through concreteness, which makes the expression of feelings in the works more full and concrete; Secondly, the work takes different images in the image system as the carrier to create a unique artistic conception; Finally, the poet used the original artistic form to make the expression of images unique.

The bleak gray-yellow desert wind, or the desert Yuan Ye, crumbling walls, deserted graves, whether lonely pedestrians, confused geese, or animals with sad eyes and tired ears, and so on. , creating a group of gloomy, desolate and gloomy poetic images. The poet used various simple, natural and common images to symbolize the sufferings of the land and people, as well as the hardships of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. For example, in the poem, "The Yellow River in Wan Li is turbulent and turbid, pouring disasters and misfortunes to the vast north." The Yellow River here has completely lost the warmth of the mother river. It is a fierce beast biting the land and people in the north. It is the rapid burning of war. Extended data:

Creation background:1February, 938, the war approached the Yellow River like thunder. Ai Qing wrote this song "North" in Tongguan, and it was published on the cover of July magazine in April of the same year. Ai Qing said in the preface to the collection of poems "The North": "I love simplicity. This hobby makes my feelings uncovered, and I take pleasure in this uncovered emotion. For a long time, I wrote poetry under such circumstances. " The sincere confession of these short words is an extremely important reminder for understanding this long poem and even Ai Qing's poems all his life. The most striking artistic feature of the poem "North" is that it is unpretentious and does not hide feelings.