Ai Qing's poems have distinct and profound images. As the poem ends, the image is completed. Image not only refers to people, but also includes the visualization of objects, thoughts, etc.
Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the "May Fourth" new literature with its characteristics of being closely integrated with reality and full of fighting spirit. It also becomes an important harvest for the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style.
This not only reflects the author's artistic talent, but also bears in mind his serious and arduous artistic practice. In his poems, he is full of enterprising spirit and rich life experience.
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Life story:
After graduating from middle school in 1928, he was admitted to the National Hangzhou West Lake Art Academy. In 1929, with the encouragement of Principal Lin Fengmian, he went to Paris for a work-study program. While studying painting, he was exposed to European modernist poetry. The Belgian poet Verhaeren had the greatest influence on him. In 1932, he composed his first poem "Meeting". This poem was published under the pseudonym "Ejia" in the combined issue of "Beidou", Volume 2, Issues 3 and 4, published in July of the same year.
In May 1932, he returned to Shanghai, joined the Chinese Left-wing Artists Alliance, and organized the Spring Land Painting Society. In July, he was arrested and imprisoned. While in prison, he translated Verhalen's poems and wrote the famous piece "Dayan River - My Nanny". Then he created "Reed Flute", "Paris" and so on. In October 1935, he was released from prison on bail.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, he went to Wuhan and wrote "Snow Falls on the Land of China". He went to the northwest region in early 1938 and wrote famous poems such as "North". In the same year, he went to Guilin and served as the editor of the supplement of "Guangxi Daily". He also co-founded the poetry magazine "Ding Dian" with Dai Wangshu. The more important works here include "Poetry Theory".
In 1940, he went to Chongqing to serve as the director of the Literature Department of Yucai School, and soon went to Yan'an to work in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Cultural Association. Representative works at this time include "Toward the Sun" and so on. In 1944, he won the model worker certificate and joined the Communist Party of China as a member of the Communist Party of China.
In October 1945, he went to Zhangjiakou with the North China Literary and Art Troupe, and later served as a leader of the School of Literary and Art of North China United University. He wrote poems such as "Cuckoo". In 1957, he was mistakenly classified as a rightist. In 1958, he went to work on the Heilongjiang Reclamation Farm. In 1959, he was transferred to the Shihezi Reclamation Area in Xinjiang. After being completely rehabilitated in 1979, he wrote a large number of poems such as "Song of Return" and "Hymn of Light".
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