Ai Qing is one of the most representative poets in modern China. Ai Qing's works always tend to show his hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his love of light and hope with the help of symbolic things such as the sun, torch and dawn.
In addition, Ai Qing often expresses his sincere feelings based on his love for rural working people and closely combined with reality, such as Dayan River-My Nanny, Coal Dialogue and Handcart.
Let's enjoy the poem Snow Falls on China (excerpt) selected by Mr. Ai Qing's works in the 2020A Chinese textbook.
Snow falls on the land of China (excerpt)
Snow fell on the land of China.
A cold current is blocking China.
wind
Like a sad old woman.
Follow closely
Stretch out your cold fingers
Pulling a pedestrian's skirt
In a language as old as the land
All the time.
Appear in the forest
Drive a carriage
You are a farmer in China.
Wear a fur hat
Braving the heavy snow
Where are you going?
Tell you
I am also a descendant of farmers.
Because of yours
A face wrinkled with pain.
I can go so deep
got it
People living on the grassland
The hardships of the years
Snow fell on the land of China.
A cold current is blocking China.
China
I was in the dark at night.
A weak poem.
Can I give you some warmth?
This poem consists of four parts, each of which begins with two sentences: "Snow falls on the land of China, and cold hinders China." Its repetition is to alleviate the heavy and melancholy feelings expressed in the gloomy narrative tone, which constitutes the basic feelings and recurring "themes" throughout the poem.
This excerpt vividly describes the scene of "China farmers" trudging in the snow. Ai Qing showed that he was a "descendant of farmers" and expressed his empathy for the working people. It also shows that under the background of the great era at that time, our people, regardless of class or occupation, are all the same fate.
The poet vividly depicts the image of the working people by using rhetorical devices such as personification, questioning and parallelism, full of sympathy for the working people at the bottom and praise for their perseverance, and finally expresses deep patriotic feelings.
Abstract: Ai Qing's poetic images are vivid and profound, with full enterprising spirit and rich life experience between the lines. 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.