On Melancholy Beauty in Ai Qing's Poetry and its Cultural Causes

With the melancholy sentiment in Ai Qing's poetry as the cutting-in point and using the researchmethods with aesthetics and psychology, this paper makes a deep study of its beauty pursuit and culturalcauses. It points out that the melancholy sentiment in Ai Qing's poetry is a complex sentiment integratedwith various sentiments such as national melancholy, individual solitude and life sorrow, which presents amulti-level structure form. It also expatiates the art strategy to communicate this complex sentiment---modernsymbolized art integrated with Chinese and Western cultures. In the background of Chinese and Western cul-tures, it explores the cultural causes in Ai-Qing's poetry---the marvelous combination of both Chinese schol-ars' social and political melancholy consciousness and western scholars' consciousness of original sin and he-nce unveils the mystery of melancholy poet.