This poem was written after the failure of the Great Revolution in 1927. At that time, the whole country was in white terror, and the hearts of revolutionary youth were full of infinite disappointment, hope and disappointment, fantasy and pursuit. This poem was written by Dai Wangshu.
Among them, the long and lonely "rain alley" refers to the dark social environment at that time, while the poet walking in the rain alley with an oil-paper umbrella symbolizes the failed revolutionary youth, and the girl who is sad like a clove symbolizes the beautiful and hazy ideal of the revolutionary youth.
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Dai Wangshu's poems are full of graceful and graceful poetic style in China's classical poems, but influenced by French symbolism poetry school, so his early poems generally show a kind of loneliness, melancholy and depression. This poem is both true and illusory, which makes people stunned.
"I" seems to be looking forward to something and pursuing something, but the goal of looking forward to and pursuing seems so distant and slim. "She" appeared, maybe it was an illusion, or it could be true, but "she" appeared so quickly and passed away so quickly, flashed by and disappeared in front of her eyes, "as sad and confused as a dream".