The Picture Beauty of Dai Wangshu's Wandering Ballad

Generally speaking, when a poet writes about a boat, it is likely to be written as the image of a wave breaker. Dai Wangshu highlighted the boat "floating among whales and sea pythons" as a "wanderer" and focused on his homesickness. This poem and the feelings of the wanderer form a reciprocating cycle: homesickness keeps sprouting and being suppressed by reason. The poet skillfully grasps this cycle, thus subtly showing the inner world of the wanderer: he has both strong will and emotional waves that are not transferred by will. When this poem was published, Dai Wangshu was in a state of depression and hesitation: on the one hand, he continued to pursue life, on the other hand, he had a sense of loss and frustration that he could not get rid of. These complicated feelings are revealed in this poem. The first section describes the fuse of homesickness for wanderers: at the beginning of the sea breeze, the blue sea is like a "blue rose". The tramp was moved by the scene and remembered his home. In the second section, three parallelism sentences are used to show the decline and neglect of the homeland. The wanderer's home has become a "spider's home", "Ficus pumila's home" and "bird's home", revealing a deep sigh from a series of comparisons. The description of "more beautiful than roses" in the fourth section is intended to compare and correspond with the sea roses that cause homesickness, indicating that "traveling companions" may transfer and dissolve the homesickness of wanderers. The last section takes "traveling companion" as "home", which shows that homesickness has not been eliminated by "traveling companion". The third section says that "wanderers have no homesickness" and does not deny the homesickness of wanderers in the first and second sections. But the homesickness of the wanderer is constantly sprouting, and it is also constantly suppressed by reason. Reflects its strong will.