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In that era, Ai Qing's "compassionate" temperament was rare, like Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty. That era was an era that advocated struggle. Whether it was resisting foreign aggression or stalemate with the Kuomintang, it was a fearless and red-flamed fighting spirit. Few people pay attention to farmers and beggars, let alone write poems about them. Ai Qing's poems can only be interpreted as "stimulating people's sympathy for the tragic fate of the vast number of working women in old China and their strong hatred for this "unjust world"". But if you imagine, if you read "Beggars" and "North" at that time , probably like cotton stuffed into the chest. In layman's terms, it means a strong feeling of powerlessness.
One day
The poet on the Horqin grassland
said to me:
“The north is sad.
< p> Of course, he is also too pure in poetry, and it is difficult to integrate class struggle and feelings of family and country. When these four sentences are written, no amount of corrections can be made back, nor can they cover up. "Sad." This sentence is too pure.To sum up, from my limited experience, Ai Qing is a very "materialistic" and compassionate person. The color tone is cold and gray. It is correct in conscience, but it is impossible to write about something very militant and political. This does not conform to his original aesthetic intention.
Occasionally, when a golden sentence comes out, the land and people have to be added. , this kind of politically correct thing is packaged well.
Ai Qing has the talent of a poet. In terms of the beauty of language and imagination, the level is very high, and he has a good heart as a poet. and sensitive nerves.
If I were to write something purely philosophical and emotional, I can guarantee that Ai Qing would be at the level of Rilke, at least not bad. But China’s political environment and revolutionary discourse would make it impossible. Rilke's very independent and detached writing perspective
So Ai Qing has always made an appropriate balance between lyricism, rational criticism and speculation, and proletarian revolutionary literature. Part of it is the remedial work that has to be done to avoid its insufficient revolutionary tone.