Ai Qing's poems are sincere in feelings, simple in language, untidy in external form and not particular about rhyme, which is more free than some free bodies in the past. Ai Qing's poetry is a new achievement after the development of modern new poetry for nearly twenty years. Therefore, it absorbed the extensive nutrition of modern new poetry in its growth. At this time, free verse developed greatly, including the practice of political lyric poetry by Jiang Guangchi and Yin Fu, and the poetic form of Bing Xin. More importantly, new poetry has been advocated and explored by metrical poetry and introduced and practiced by symbolic poetry. At the same time, it has also been widely influenced by foreign poets such as Whitman, Mayakovski, Ye Saining, Porter, Ranbo and Wahallen.
In a word, he is good at accurately capturing feelings in the integration of subjective and objective, extracting vivid images with both form and spirit, making it a synthesis of emotion and reason, with multi-level associative meaning and broad symbolic space.
Most of his poems do not rhyme forcibly, nor do they pursue the uniformity of words, lines and stanzas, but a few poems are bold and unrestrained in appearance but pay attention to creating internal rhythm and melody.
Make good use of metaphors, short sentences are vivid and colorful, long sentences are forceful, simple and meaningful, pure and profound.