Love for "land" is an inexhaustible melody in Ai Qing's works.
After reading the complete poem, from the images of "land", "river", "wind" and "dawn", it is not difficult for us to taste the ups and downs and bitterness experienced by the author, as well as the deep love for the motherland, the people and the land.
Image is one of the basic elements of poetic image formation, the unity of the poet's inner feelings and external images, and the tangible scene produced by the poet's integration of "meaning" and "image" through imagination. Every original poet has his own image, which embodies the poet's unique feelings, observation and understanding of life, as well as his unique thoughts and feelings. This kind of art is well reflected in Ai Qing's poem I Love This Land. This poem was written in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, when the country was in danger and the mountains and rivers fell, so it was inevitably branded with the tragic atmosphere of that era, and the images in the poem were bound to have this tragic color. After reading the whole poem, from the images of "land", "river", "wind" and "dawn", it is not difficult for us to taste the ups and downs and bitterness experienced by the author, as well as the deep love for the motherland, the people and the land.
"Land" is an image commonly used by Ai Qing. The image of "land" embodies the poet's deepest love for the motherland, and it can also be said that it is another kind of life for him. Patriotism is an inexhaustible theme in Ai Qing's creation. For example, his Snow Falls in China, Beggar, Land of Resurrection and so on. Both contain his love for the land and the country. He lamented that the poor land had been ravaged;
"It has snowed on the land of China/the cold is blocking China ...";