He opened up a new field of poetry theme, showed a new look of working people, explored a new style of poetry art, and made great contributions to the development of new China poetry.
Wen Jie is a singer of labor and love in the new era. "From east to west, from north to south, I can see the origin of pearls everywhere." ("Tianshan pastoral? With his talent and insight, he found a string of pearl-like beautiful things in the labor and love of the working people in New China, and wrote them into touching poems. The collection of poems "Love Songs in Turpan" and "Folk Songs in Guozigou" contains 16 short poems describing love (all included in Tianshan Pastoral). When these poems were published in the early 1950s, they gained a wide audience with their beautiful thoughts and emotional appeal, novel themes and styles, adding a wonderful flower to the poetry garden of new China.
The poet did not stop at the superficial description of the love between men and women. He always organically combines the praise of pure love with the praise of the noble sentiments of young people in New China who love labor, love new life and pursue beautiful ideals. "Under the Apple Tree" describes labor and love together, and skillfully uses metaphors to set off the growth of apple and the development of love. When "the pink fruit bends the green branches", it is also the day when "the love planted has been harvested", which is really touching to read. Wen Jie is a poet who is good at describing. Even his lyric poems are often famous for their vivid and unique descriptions. The poet's ability to write narrative poems can be seen in such narrative poems as "Kazakh shepherd sends a pony a thousand miles at night" and "East Wind urges Huang Helang". He is good at telling stories and portraying characters with his own unique artistic methods. It can be said that Wen Jie is a poet with novelist talent. The epic masterpiece The Flame of Revenge is a long narrative poem that fully expresses the poet's artistic talent.