Dai Wangshu's Dream Seeker

Dai Wangshu was a representative poet of modernism in 1930s. His published poems include My Memory, Wang Shucao (the above two poems are Wang Shushi) and The Years of Disaster. Dai Wangshu was once famous as a "Rain Lane" poet. His poems rely on "rhythm" instead of "music", paying attention to the superposition of images, the integration of concrete intuition and abstract suggestion (association), and the "modern" return to some traditional poetry techniques.

Dreamer

When reading poetry, we should grasp the poet's artistic conception: the modern people's idea of "seeking dreams" is embedded in a folk story of "seeking gold shells", one of which is imaginary and the other is real, which is skillfully intertwined. -Read the whole poem carefully and realize how the poet transforms his artistic conception into external formal features: combining the exaggeration and repetition of folk songs with the modern symbolic techniques of vague images; With the friendly tone of daily spoken language, the complex and subtle feelings of modern people are implicitly expressed. Then, recite the whole poem over and over again, and appreciate the poetic meaning flowing in it: both clear (showing the persistence of pursuing the ideal) and confused and sad (showing the fatigue and aging in the pursuit).

The artistic conception of this poem is characterized by putting the modern people's idea of "seeking dreams" into a folk story of "seeking golden shells" and skillfully interweaving one void with another.

The Dreamcatcher is a vivid portrayal of the poet's inner world and a profound confession of a group spirit and soul. It sings a wonderful song of the dreamer's soul with beautiful symbolic images. This beautiful song tells the true meaning of life: the realization of any beautiful ideal and the success of any cause must pay the hard price that people pursue all their lives; When your dream "blooms beautiful flowers", it is "when you are old".

The poet Dai Wangshu used symbolism to express his understanding of the true meaning of life. The symbolic noumenon in the poem is the poet himself, and the symbolic carrier is the "peach beads" spit out by the "golden shell". The poet found the symbol of this ideal, and all the beautiful things that life pursues are embodied in this ideal.

This poem has a lyrical connotation. The beginning and the end are not only a circular structure, but also the expansion of emotions to a higher level. The focus of the poem is the mental journey of searching for "priceless treasure", from the position of the golden shell to the hardships of meeting the golden shell, from praising the richness and value of the golden shell to the hardships of the peach pearl, and finally writing the happiness and happiness of life after obtaining priceless treasure. The carrier of symbol and the noumenon of symbol are intertwined, and the poet's feelings are also ups and downs. Among them, the flowing poetry and artistic conception are clear. It has shown certain modernist characteristics.

The Dreamcatcher is very ethnic. The poet chose "golden shell" and "peach pearl" as the carriers of the ideal symbol of life, which was deeply inspired by the image of traditional poetry. A series of images, such as the sea, golden shells, pearls, icebergs, dry sea, seawater, Tianshui, and even the number "nine years" itself, are all familiar in classical poetry and are also in line with the psychological accumulation of national aesthetics. Poets use "cyan", "gold" and "peach" to describe the depth of life (the sea) and realize the beauty of ideals and values, which easily resonates with national psychology. There are three lines in each section, and the rhythm is generally arranged in order. One or two sentences are repeated or arranged in each section. Aab rhymes are generally used in the three lines, and even most sentences are repeated. Reading it, not only has the aesthetic effect of images coming in droves, but also has the satisfaction of a harmonious and pleasant auditory realm. From the creation of emotion and realm, spirit and form of poetry, it makes perfect sense that Dream Chaser is a typical modern oriental symbolic poem that has got rid of the shadow of western symbolic poetry.