"Old Horse", April 1932, talk about what thoughts and feelings the poet expressed through horses. "Old Horse" (April, 1932), talk about what thoughts and feelings the poet expressed through horses.

1. This poem depicts the image of an old horse in a miserable situation and ill-fated.

2. Expresses the author’s deep sympathy for Lao Ma.

3. The author has deep affection for this ordinary old horse because the tragic experience of this old horse resembles that of farmers in old China. The demeanor of being so overwhelmed that you can't even lift your head is the same as the "weight-bearing" of the farmers at that time, and the expression of the pain that makes you swallow tears in your belly is exactly the "endurance" of the farmers. The image of the old horse is highly generalized. It not only symbolizes the farmers of old China, but also contains the poet's self-image. At that time, the poet was extremely dissatisfied with the dark reality, but felt powerless to resist. He lamented his fate, "feeling sad, angry and powerless, lonely and miserable." ("Thirty Years of Writing in Jinghua") This mental state is consistent with the thoughts and feelings of Lao Ma in the poem. The author said that when he wrote about old horses, "actually he was writing about himself." ("Knowing the Joys and Woes")

The material of this poem is ordinary. Who has never seen a horse-drawn carriage, so why is it surprising? The language is also simple and natural, which may seem tasteless at first, but if you taste it slowly, you will find that there is profound content in the simple pictures, and there are passionate emotions in the plain words, and the reading becomes more interesting. This concise, implicit and melancholy style is exactly the characteristic of Zang Kejia's early lyric poetry. The poem also rhymes with alternate lines, and the rhymes have a low tone, which makes people feel depressed and heavy, and can better express the misfortune of the old horse.