Test points of "Selected Poems of Ai Qing":

1. Poetry style

In terms of poetry style: before liberation, Ai Qing cursed with deep, exciting and unrestrained writing styles Darkness eulogized light; after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it continued to praise the people, praise light, and reflect on life. His "return" songs have broader content, richer thoughts, deeper emotions, more diverse techniques, and more mature art.

The poetry collections published after the founding of the People's Republic of China include: "Cheering Collection", "Gem Red Star", "On the Cape", "Spring", "Returning Song", "Colorful Poems", "Outside the Territory Collection" , "Snow Lotus", "Selected Poems of Ai Qing", etc. Ai Qing has made an outstanding career with his singing full of artistic personality, and practices his poetic aesthetic proposition of "simple, simple, concentrated and bright".

2. Classic Quotes

1. Why do I always have tears in my eyes? Because I love this land deeply.

2. People don’t like lies. No matter how pretentious or high-sounding the lies are, they will not touch people’s hearts. There is a scale in everyone's heart that measures language.

3. Personal pain and joy must be integrated into the pain and joy of the times.

4. There is no eternal night in the world, and there is no eternal winter in the world.

5. Because our once-dead earth has been resurrected under the clear sky! ——Suffering has become a memory, and in its warm chest, what will flow again will be the blood of the fighters.

6. One tree after another, they stand isolated from each other. The wind and air tell their distance. But under the cover of soil, their roots stretch out, tangled together in invisible depths.

3. The imagery of Ai Qing’s poems

Ai Qing’s poems have rich cultural connotations of the times and are worthy of our careful appreciation. The central image of Ai Qing's poetry is: land and sun.

The image of "land" embodies the poet's deepest love for the motherland, Mother Earth; patriotism is an endless theme in Ai Qing's works.

The poet's focus is always the fate of ordinary farmers who are one with the Chinese land. He wrote about the pain of the "land-peasants" being ravaged; "Snow fell on the land of China, and the cold was blocking China". He also wrote about "the heat swimming in the center of the earth" and "land-peasants". Resurrection: "Our once-dead earth has been resurrected under the clear sky"; it writes about the transformation and liberation of "land-peasants". This is the depiction of the pain, resurrection and liberation of the land, and truly writes the soul of China's rural reality.

The image of "sun" expresses another side of the poet's soul: the passionate and endless pursuit of light, ideals, and a beautiful life. The poet has been singing enthusiastically for decades: sun, light, spring, dawn, life and flame. This is Ai Qing’s “eternal theme”.