How did Ai Qing change from painter to poet?

Ai Qing's transformation from a painter to a poet is not sudden. There are two reasons. Prison played a key role in it. Ai Qing, a prisoner, studied oil painting, and painting required pigments, brushes, easels, canvases and other painting materials. Sketch, these conditions are simply not met in prison. She can only sketch and sketch at best. After a long time, there is nothing to draw in her cell. Obviously, the creation of poetry is much more convenient, without complicated tools and materials, and without going out to sketch. As long as you have a pen and paper, you can create, while painting can only describe a fixed thing, and poetry can provide more imagination. But the decisive reason is Ai Qing's long-term interest in poetry and research. Ai Qing loved poetry since he was a child, but before that, he was more obsessed with painting, and after the disaster in prison, he gradually fell in love with poetry.