Snow Falling on the Land of China is a modern poem written by the modern poet Ai Qing in 1937. By describing the images of farmers, young women and mothers under heavy snow, this poem shows the sufferings and disasters of the Chinese nation, the picture of old China, the poet's deep patriotic enthusiasm, and the poet's deep sense of hardship and childlike innocence.
The whole poem uses the language of prose culture, and there is no trace of carving and showing off. The strong elasticity and tension of its language expand the situation of the poem and make it profound and broad.
Ai Qing's creative characteristics:
Ai Qing's works generally describe symbolic things such as the sun, torches and dawn, showing Ai Qing's hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. Ai Qing, starting from his love for rural working people and approaching their demands, has been presenting his most authentic poems to them for more than ten years.
Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th New Literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and has become an important achievement in the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style. This not only reflects the author's artistic talent, but also bears in mind his serious and arduous artistic practice.
In his poems, the full enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring something different. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image, and with the end of the poem, this image is completed. Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas.
Ai Qing's poems do not stick to appearances in form, and pay little attention to rhyme and uniformity of lines, but use regular parallelism and repetition to create a unified change.