Ai Qing has always stressed that the language of poetry should be enlightening. His "On Poetry" has a cloud: "The language of revelation, in its most ordinary shape, contains profound truth." Many of his short poems praise ordinary truth, and most of them express his feelings about society and life in the most ordinary form. The language is enlightening. The same is true of the poem Hope. The poem describes two kinds of "hopes" of seafarers, which is actually a tribute to the optimistic and heroic character of new China seafarers and their heroic spirit of daring to struggle and win. Because for seafarers, "looking forward to starting" means looking forward to fighting stormy waves, and "looking forward to arriving" means looking forward to and yearning for successfully reaching the destination. If you don't start, you won't arrive; There is no victory without fighting. Therefore, the two hopes of sailors express that they want to fight and win. By extension, departure and arrival-fighting and victory-are just two hopes of seafarers? Don't every revolutionary always have these two hopes in his mind on the journey of life? When a ship is at sea, it will constantly encounter wind and waves; People in the world will constantly encounter difficulties. A real revolutionary soldier should be like a brave sailor. The difficult answer is fighting, and the answer to fighting is victory. This is the profound enlightenment of the poem Hope.
Ai Qing's poems deliberately pursue pure beauty and simple beauty. This poetic image is simple, and the main body is two vivid sentences of two sailors, which are composed of two symbolic images. It is through the concrete and vivid description of the two hopes that the poet profoundly reveals the thoughts and feelings of a generation of seafarers. Poetry is written entirely in spoken language. The poet once said: "I write poems in spoken language, not to rhyme." I write poetry according to my own ideas, which has an internal rhythm. If I read fluently, it will sound very harmonious. " (On Poetry) This little poem is like this. The two prose sentences in the poem are more than 20 words long, but they flow naturally like mountain springs, showing the beauty of simple, natural, fresh and smooth language.
It is appropriate to use the word hope as the topic, which reflects the author's hope for things.