AI Qing-Style Poetry and the Construction of Poetry History

AI Qing's poetry,like himself per se,a Jesus-like martyr,is greatly concerned about the hardships of his nation and time.The hardships are a combination of his own sufferings and the nation's misfortune,and his worry shows his love for his nation and the human beings,the greatest love of all,which characterizes his poetry.His poetry is soaked with child- hood sufferings,a wanderer's bitterness and a nation's misery,all of which are expressed by vagueness,obscurity and melan- choly of symbolism,in this way shapes his unique style.From AI Qing's creation course and his poems we can see the change of an age,and the agreement of his poetry with the course of history,then we can say that his poetry,recording Chi- na of the 20th century,is historical.