Ai Qing's poetry has created a peak of modern free-style poetry with the beauty of prose.

Ai Qing's poems are sincere in emotion, simple in language, do not seek neatness in external form, and do not pay attention to rhyme. They are freer than some free verses in the past. Ai Qing's poetry is a new achievement after the development of modern new poetry for nearly twenty years. Therefore, as it grows, it absorbs a wide range of nutrients from modern new poetry. At this time, free-style poetry had already developed greatly. There were not only the practice of political lyric poetry by Jiang Guangchi, Yin Fu, etc., but also the short poem form of poets such as Bing Xin for reference. More importantly, new poetry had also gone through He advocated and explored metrical poetry and introduced and practiced symbolism poetry. He was also widely influenced by foreigners such as Whitman, Mayakovsky, Ye Suining, Baudelaire, Rambo, Verhalen, etc. The influence of poets, in this way, has greatly improved artistically than the previous free verse poetry.

In short, he is good at accurately capturing feelings and refining vivid images of both form and spirit in the fusion of subjectivity and objectivity, turning them into a complex of emotions and reason, with multi-level associative meanings and A vast symbolic space.

Most of his poems do not force rhyme, nor do they pursue uniformity of words, lines, and stanzas. However, there are also a few poems that are unrestrained in appearance but focus on creating inner rhythm and melody.

Make good use of metaphors and symbols, short sentences are lively and colorful, and long sentences are powerful, simple yet meaningful, pure yet profound.