—— Ai Qing
The sun shines on a white beach.
Our footprints are printed on the beach.
We walked by the river.
The river churned in the wind.
We called a ferry.
But the sound was blown away by the wind.
Make an appreciative comment
This is a very intriguing poem, with the interest of life between the lines. Its exquisiteness makes us fondle admiringly. From this, we also feel how much the poet loves nature, even if it is a small scene in nature, how obsessed with life. This poetic style is not frivolous, nor is it for the sake of beauty. It is another life experience of the poet, which is poetic and artistic. Yes, Ai Qing was influenced by late French romantic poetry and late French symbolic poetry, but his pursuit was different from that of western symbolic poetry. He tried his best to abandon the illusion that western symbolists simply pursued "self" and only paid attention to the performance effect. While paying attention to absorbing some useful means of expression from western symbolism, he paid more attention to using these means in the expression of life experience. Even a sand-like sketch is by no means a mirage or a castle in the air, but an artistic representation of real life.
The poem Sand, together with Tree and Yuan Ye, was written in Xinning, Hunan. It can't be said that in this same period, poets wrote such dignified works as trees and wilderness, so they shouldn't write such works as sand. It can't be said that the poet is far away from the overall situation of national survival by writing a sand-like work. In creation, even in the same period, poets in the same place should have a wide range of choices. You can't ask a poet to sing only one song. It can't be said that with a poem like "Trees and Yuan Ye", there is no poem like "Sand".