Dai Wangshu is a representative figure of China's modern symbolism poetry. Dai Wangshu's poetry creation mainly concentrated in the 1920s and 1940s, with less than 100 poems, but it occupies an important position in the history of China's new poetry. His famous work Rain Lane began to show sentimental mood and symbolism.
His poetry combines the images of traditional poetry, exaggeration and repetition similar to folk songs, and modern symbolic techniques with hazy images, which shows the helplessness and sadness of the poet struggling in the modern society where his ideals are lost and he is unwilling to give up but unable to recover. In poetry, the complex and subtle feelings of modern people are implicitly expressed in the tone of friendly daily spoken language.
Introduction to Dai Wangshu:
Dai Wangshu, male, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, whose real name is Chao 'an and his nickname is Haishan. Later, he used pen names Meng Ou, Meng Ou Sheng, Fang Xin and Jiang Si. China modernist symbolist poet and translator. He, Zhang Tianyi, Shi Zhecun and others once formed a small literary group called Lanshe and founded You Lan. 1950 Dai Wangshu died in Beijing at the age of 45.
Dai Wangshu is famous in the history of literature because of his excellent poems, and he himself is called the leader of modern poetry in the late 1920s and early 1930s because of his unique poems. 1927, his poem Rain Lane showed the transition trend of crescent school to modernism, and My Memory written by 1929 became the starting point of modern poetry school.