The main theme of "Selected Poems of Ai Qing: Toward the Sun": It expresses the author's yearning for life and description of a beautiful attitude towards life. The sun brings warmth and strength to people. "Towards the Sun" is more than 400 lines long and is Ai Qing's longest poem in the 1930s. It consists of nine independent and echoing chapters.
Excerpt from the original text:
I got up - like a sleepy beast, a wounded beast.
From the forest covered with fallen leaves, from the icy rocks, I struggled for a long time, supported my upper body, opened my eyes, and searched for the horizon.
I am one, from distant mountains, from uncultivated mountains, to these tens of millions of people.
Cities that work with their hands, shout with their mouths, and walk with their feet.
In April 1938, shortly after Ai Qing returned to Wuhan from the war-torn north, he composed a long poem "Towards the Sun" with intense and rich emotions. Because this poem shows the author's spirit of continuous exploration of life and art, as well as the broad aesthetic realm it reaches, for more than half a century, my country's modern literary history and literary critics have unanimously praised it as an important poem during the Anti-Japanese War. Excellent poem. Because it not only marked Ai Qing's creative path to a new height, but also had a broad and profound impact on the development of my country's poetry creation.