The "Lilac Girl" in this poem refers to the poet's ideal, and in the social reality at that time, it is the author's mourning for the disillusionment of the ideal. But the poet is great because he still has hope in his heart even though he knows that his ideal will be shattered.
An important artistic feature of the extended material Rain Lane is the use of symbolism to express emotions. Symbolism is an art school that rose in French poetry at the end of19th century. They used the decadence of the end of the world to resist the capitalist order. In the way of expression, it emphasizes the use of implicit metaphor and other means to express the inner feelings.
This school of art was introduced into China at the ebb of the May 4th Movement. Dai Wangshu's early works were obviously influenced by French symbolism. An important feature of his creation is that he pays attention to the ability of excavating implied metaphors in poetry and expresses his feelings with symbolic images and artistic conception. Rain Lane embodies this artistic feature.
The poet with an oil-paper umbrella in his poem, the lonely and long rain lane, and the girl with lilac-like sadness and dreams are not the concrete portrayal of real life itself, but the lyrical images full of symbolic significance. The contents of these images may not be specific, but we can appreciate the vague poetry expressed by these images.
The image described in Rain Lane is both deterministic and erratic, with social reality atmosphere, lonely and wandering mood, and distant hope, which is both clear and hazy.
About the author: Dai Wangshu (1905~ 1950), whose real name is Chao 'an and his nickname is Haishan. Hangzhou, Zhejiang. One of the representative poets of China's modernism. Because of the poem "Rain Lane", he was once called "Rain Lane Poet". He is the author of a collection of poems, My Memory, Wang Shucao, Wang Shushi, The Years of Disaster, etc.
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