Ai Qing entered the poetry world in the early 1930s, and the deep and melancholy lyrical style of his works attracted wide attention. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Ai Qing has actually become one of the most representative poets. From the late 1930s to the mid-40s, it can be called "Ai Qing era". His creation not only created a poetic style, but also profoundly influenced the poetic circles in this period and even in the late 1940s.
Creative characteristics
Ai Qing's works generally describe symbolic things such as the sun, torches and dawn, showing Ai Qing's hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. Ai Qing, starting from his love for rural working people and approaching their demands, has been presenting his most authentic poems to them for more than ten years.
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. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image, and with the end of the poem, this image is completed. Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas.
Ai Qing's poems do not stick to appearances in form, and pay little attention to rhyme and uniformity of lines, but use regular parallelism and repetition to create a unified change.