Dai Wangshu's modern poem "Rain Lane" is as follows:
"Rain Lane" is a modern poem written by the poet Dai Wangshu in 1927. The poem describes the lyrical protagonist "holding an oil-paper umbrella" and wandering alone in a long and lonely rain alley.
He cherishes a vague hope, hoping to meet "a girl with sorrow and resentment like a lilac". This girl has the same color and fragrance as a lilac, but her heart is filled with sorrow and resentment. sad.
He met such a girl, but it was fleeting, "like floating in a dream", her color, fragrance, "eyes like breath" and "melancholy like lilacs" all disappeared. "In the Lament of Rain". He is still "holding an oil-paper umbrella", wandering alone in the long and lonely rainy alley, still holding on to hope, hope floating past "a girl who is as sad as a lilac".
In "Rain Lane", the poet uses symbolic images and image groups to create a lyrical space, convey inner emotions, and integrates the artistic nutrition of ancient poetry, especially the delicate and graceful poetry of the late Tang and Five Dynasties. Not only that, the artistic success of this poem lies in its harmonious musical beauty.
Dai Wangshu (November 5, 1905 - February 28, 1950), male, given name Cheng, courtesy name Chao'an, nickname Haishan, was born in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Later, he used the pen names Meng Ou, Meng Ou Sheng, Xin Fang, Jiang Si, etc. Chinese modern symbolist poet, translator, etc.
He has published three novels in the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School's publications: "Debt", "Art Boy" and "Mother's Love". He once established a small literary group called "Lan Society" with Du Heng, Zhang Tianyi, Shi Zhecun and others, and founded the ten-month issue of "Lan Friends". Dai Wangshu died of illness in Beijing in 1950 at the age of 45.