What images are used in mowing children's poems to reflect the smallness of mowing children?

The image expressed in Ai Qing's poetry collection "The Child Cutting the Grass" is that that little child, who is worthy of sympathy, has never been to school or spoiled around his parents, and has shouldered the burden of labor since childhood. The sun has set, and he hasn't come home yet, and he is still mowing the grass. How hard he works! From this, the poet further told readers that in that era, people's lives were not good, and people's lives were difficult, even directly on children. How unfair and inhuman it is to live in such an era and such a hard life! Cutting the grass for the children aroused the poet's association and inner indignation!

The poet only chose a picture of a child mowing the grass, and left nothing else written, which is a very high skill in itself. "Eliminating redundancies and preserving details" (in Zheng Banqiao) is a very important technical requirement as well as an aesthetic requirement. The poet knows this very well. When the poet conceived this poem, he had already processed it in his mind from material selection to tailoring, and what to write and what not to write had been filtered in his mind. Although this process is invisible and unknown to others, it is a very important stage in creation. Without this process, it is unimaginable.

The success of this process is closely related to the poet's life experience and aesthetic ability. Talented poets create exquisite works, while those poets who are not talented may of course be inferior. The selection and tailoring of The Child Cutting the Grass just shows the poet's brilliance.

When writing these eight-line poems, the poet seems to be careless. Look carefully, poets also use skills. The poet deliberately emphasized the child's mowing action in his poem. He "started in a hurry with his head down …" and emphasized that "the grass has covered his small body", and then emphasized that "a bamboo basket full of grass, a few piles of grass, a sickle shining with golden light in the sunset …" The poet emphasized and highlighted these, which was considered by the poet from his own intention.

The poet just wrote such a picture with his heart. Without intention, poetry will be pale and skills will wither. The poet's original intention is: how pitiful children are, they have never been to school, and they have never spoiled their parents. They have shouldered the burden of labor since childhood. The sun has set, and he hasn't come home yet, and he is still mowing the grass. How hard he works! From this, the poet further told readers that in that era, people's lives were not good, and people's lives were difficult, even directly on children. How unfair and inhuman it is to live in such an era and such a hard life! Cutting the grass for the children aroused the poet's association and inner indignation!