Rain Lane is a modern poem written by China poet Dai Wangshu in 1927. The poem describes the lyrical hero wandering alone in a long and lonely rain lane with an oil-paper umbrella. With an ethereal hope, he hopes to meet a girl as sad as lilac. This girl has the same color and fragrance as lilacs, but her heart is sad and sad.
He met such a girl, but it was fleeting and dreamlike. Her color, fragrance, sighing eyes and the sadness of lilacs all disappeared in the sad song of rain. He is still holding an oil-paper umbrella, wandering alone in the long and lonely rain lane, still with hope, hoping to float across a girl with a lilac knot.
In Rain Lane, the poet used symbolic images and image group to construct lyric space, conveyed inner feelings, and integrated the artistic nutrition of ancient China poems, especially graceful poems in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Besides, the artistic success of this poem lies in its harmonious musical beauty.
The creative background of Rain Lane;
This poem was written in the summer of 1927. At that time, the whole country was in a state of white terror Because Dai Wangshu participated in progressive activities, he had to stay at a friend's house in Songjiang, chewing the disillusionment and pain after the failure of the Great Revolution in loneliness, and his heart was full of lost emotions and hazy hopes.
The poem "Rain Lane" is an expression of his state of mind, which is intertwined with the dual emotional appeal of disappointment and hope, disillusionment and pursuit. This feeling was common at that time.