Dai Wangshu's Rain Lane is a masterpiece of modernist poetry and his famous work. The scene created by the poet is a rainy lane in the south of the Yangtze River. The water towns in the south of the Yangtze River are gentle and melodious, full of aura, while the alleys in the south of the Yangtze River are very distinctive, long and deep, giving people a lonely and sad mood and endless lingering. The rain in the south of the Yangtze River is soft and foggy, with a touch of sadness. In the rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the poet walked alone in a quiet and long alley with an oil-paper umbrella, wandering aimlessly, hoping to meet a girl. What does this girl look like? In the second verse of the poem, the poet begins to describe: "She has the color/fragrance/sadness/sadness/hesitation in the rain like cloves." White lilacs exude an innate fragrance and elegance. And this woman is also deeply influenced by Jiangnan sentiment. She is as pure, noble and elegant as lilac, as gentle and lovely as Jiangnan, and as Daiyu in a Dream of Red Mansions, she suppresses her sadness with lilac and wanders in the rain.
Like a poet, she walked silently with an oil-paper umbrella. Cold, sad, melancholy, aimless, confused, walking lightly on the smooth bluestone board in the alley. Just like the ancient women in China, one step at a time is gentle, one step at a time is gold! Having said that, it suddenly occurred to me that Maggie Cheung in In the Mood for Love is also a bitter and sweet woman, who loves her elegant cheongsam and passed Tony Leung Chiu Wai in the alley. "She silently approached/approached/threw a/sighing look/",floating like a dream!
At this point, the poet integrated his dream with reality. I don't know whether that scene is the poet's dream or his emotions, as if floating in the dream, but drifting away from him. This may be the poet's wish, but Lilac Girl gradually drifted away when the poet recalled the beauty in his dream, walking through all the alleys and the dilapidated fence, leaving the poet alone to continue wandering. Here, the poet no longer expects to meet, but just hopes, "Hope floats by." If a girl like Lilac can be a passer-by and a dream in life, there is nothing else to ask for.
Rain Lane was written in the summer of 1927. When the Great Revolution failed, the poet saw the deviation between ideal and reality. At this time, the poet is also struggling for his love. He fell in love with Shi Youzhi's sister Shi Jiangnian, but was rejected. Rain Lane is not only the poet's disappointment at the failure of the revolution in reality, but also an expression of his feelings, setbacks and sadness in pursuing Shi Jiangnian. As the leader of the modern poetry school, Dai Wangshu's Hungry Poems reflect the modern feelings that modern people feel in modern life, without losing the traditional aristocratic language in rhetoric, and at the same time reflect the hungry modern life that modern people pursue love in content.
The whole poem uses symbolism in writing, and the image is clear and complete, which fully shows the psychological changes of the poet!
My memory
Dai Wangshu began to "rebel" the musicality of the poem shortly after the release of Rain Lane, and wrote this poem My Memory, which he thought was a new masterpiece. A new monument was set up in the process of this poet's creation. The publication of My Memory, the first collection of poems with this poem as its theme, became a major event in 1929 poetry circle. The poet's preference for this poem is far better than that of Rain Lane. That's understandable.
Memory is an abstract human emotion, and it is also an emotional form for poets to remember the past. In the poet Dai Wangshu's pen, through the figurative description and personification, the abstract emotion has become an "old friend" with life and rich spiritual world. The poet injected human feelings into "memory" and hid his feelings in the description of "memory", which made this symbolic poem cover a wider range and aroused the emotional voices of countless readers. The poet's infinite nostalgia for the lost life flows through every reader's heart like running water, and Yuan Ye in his memory will be covered with greenery. This seems to be a variation of Kubinashi's theme, but it evokes echoes of various life themes in readers' minds. The universality of the lyrical connotation of My Memory hides its own affairs, which is the most important source of its artistic charm.
After losing everything beautiful, including ideal and love, the most loyal friend who comes with loneliness is chewing the memory of past lives. Memory is faithful, memory is kind, and memory has almost become a bosom friend to comfort life. What a bittersweet mood! In order to write this mood, my memory first personifies the memory. The first section is a summary, but it already implies that memory is regarded as a living and infinitely loyal friend. In this way, the whole poem runs through the characteristics of "friends" and gives abstract emotions a vivid form. In the second paragraph of the poem, I wrote that my memory is almost everywhere. The poet used a series of subtle things to close the different time and space between the past and the present, and annihilated the distance between them. The format of this poem is a bit monotonous, but because of the concrete images chosen, it is full of life breath and gives people a sense of image intimacy. Memories are everywhere, on burning cigarettes, pens painted with lilies, worn-out powder boxes and dropped raspberries, half-drunk wine bottles, old poems and dried flowers, gloomy lamps and dim lamps. These seemingly handy concrete images are actually rich in suggestibility, beautiful love life, joy and decay of love, agitation in pain ... let you imagine! The poet's hazy realm gives you the right to imagine. After reading it, no matter how you imagine, the soul of the poet who chews the beautiful and sour life of the past all the time will always appear in front of you. Your experience and the poet's image complement each other and show this rich emotional world to the fullest.
This poem enters the second verse, and when the memory appears, it begins to write modality. It is "timid", it is afraid of "people's noise", it is a lonely friend of people, so when it is lonely, it "visits me intimately", and it talks endlessly with poets with extremely low voices and fragmented words. The five-line poem at the end of this paragraph reveals the connotation of this "memory" more specifically: "Its words are old, always telling the same story,/its tone is harmonious, always singing the same tune,/sometimes it imitates the voice of a girl who loves focus,/its voice is weak,/it is also full of tears and sighs." Old stories and equally harmonious old songs, these images can easily arouse people's association with love. Read this association with The Voice of a girl who loves to be anxious, Tears and Sigh. These "tears" and "sighs" are of course visiting "girls" in memory, but aren't they the reflection of the poet's mood living in memory?
The fourth verse of this poem is about the arrival time of memory. Although this visit is sudden, "people will say it is impolite", I like it because "we are old friends" and it will bring me sweet comfort in loneliness. The last section further shows that I can't get rid of this memory, and those beautiful and bitter past events make me unforgettable, except when I cried or fell asleep. The poem is written in a cyclical lyric structure, and the last two lines return to the first two lines. But it is more emotional than the opening: "But I will never hate it,/because it is loyal to me." It is happy to have good memories, but how desolate and lonely a person who only relies on the loyalty of memories as a friend is! Although the poet did not talk about his inner loneliness and pain, this feeling was deep and thought-provoking in a seemingly relaxed and pleasant tone. People will enter the emotional world of this poem with the same mood.
This poem is obviously influenced by the poems such as Dining Room written by the late French symbolist poet Flam Liss James. He "abandons all grandiosity, exquisiteness and beauty, and writes poems with his simple heart", and can pay attention to "properly and artistically grasping" the aesthetic feeling of "living in our daily life", such as the first section of Dining Room. /It will hear my father's voice. /For these memories, the wardrobe is faithful. Others think it will only be silent, which is wrong. /Because I'm talking to it. However, Meyer emotionalized concrete things, while Dai Wangshu personified abstract emotions. In terms of the difficulty of artistic creation, the latter is even more difficult than the former. In his poems, Dai Wangshu abandons all grandiose beauty and captures the beauty in the images of daily life. Some trivial things that seem to be out of touch with poetry have become images with rich symbolic connotations, such as burning cigarettes, worn-out compact boxes, crumbling raspberries, dried flowers, gloomy lamps and calm water. These inanimate things not only have life, but also are endowed with broad meanings. Therefore, these common things in daily life also shine with the brilliance and charm of poetry.
In Rain Lane, Dai Wangshu got rid of the external pursuit of musical beauty and pursued a symptom of expressing internal rhythm "in the ups and downs of poetic emotion, that is, in the degree of poetic sentiment". My memory is the first time he taught himself to practice. The poem Rain Lane has no sonorous rhyme and flowery words, and it is completely modern spoken language, which makes the narrative of the poem closer to the reader's emotions and increases the lyrical intimacy. Even poems with strong momentum and parallelism, such as the five lines before the second festival, use a soothing tone. After the sixth line, "On tearing old poems, on dried flowers,/on gloomy lamps, on calm water" is used in two sentences, and the modifiers are both long and short, which is more conducive to communication. My Memory initiated the generation of China's modernist poetry in 1930s.
Dreamer
Dreamer
When reading poetry, we should grasp the poet's artistic conception: the modern people's idea of "seeking dreams" is embedded in a folk story of "seeking gold shells", one of which is imaginary and the other is real, which is skillfully intertwined. -Read the whole poem carefully and realize how the poet transforms his artistic conception into external formal features: combining the exaggeration and repetition of folk songs with the modern symbolic techniques of vague images; With the friendly tone of daily spoken language, the complex and subtle feelings of modern people are implicitly expressed. Then, recite the whole poem over and over again, and appreciate the poetic meaning flowing in it: both clear (showing the persistence of pursuing the ideal) and confused and sad (showing the fatigue and aging in the pursuit).
The artistic conception of this poem is characterized by putting the modern people's idea of "seeking dreams" into a folk story of "seeking golden shells" and skillfully interweaving one void with another.
The Dreamcatcher is a vivid portrayal of the poet's inner world and a profound confession of a group spirit and soul. It sings a wonderful song of the dreamer's soul with beautiful symbolic images. This beautiful song tells the true meaning of life: the realization of any beautiful ideal and the success of any cause must pay the hard price that people pursue all their lives; When your dream "blooms beautiful flowers", it is "when you are old".
The poet Dai Wangshu used symbolism to express his understanding of the true meaning of life. The symbolic noumenon in the poem is the poet himself, and the symbolic carrier is the "peach beads" spit out by the "golden shell". The poet found the symbol of this ideal, and all the beautiful things that life pursues are embodied in this ideal.
This poem has a lyrical connotation. The beginning and the end are not only a circular structure, but also the expansion of emotions to a higher level. The focus of the poem is the mental journey of searching for "priceless treasure", from the position of the golden shell to the hardships of meeting the golden shell, from praising the richness and value of the golden shell to the hardships of the peach pearl, and finally writing the happiness and happiness of life after obtaining priceless treasure. The carrier of symbol and the noumenon of symbol are intertwined, and the poet's feelings are also ups and downs. Among them, the flowing poetry and artistic conception are clear. It has shown certain modernist characteristics.
The Dreamcatcher is very ethnic. The poet chose "golden shell" and "peach pearl" as the carriers of the ideal symbol of life, which was deeply inspired by the image of traditional poetry. A series of images, such as the sea, golden shells, pearls, icebergs, dry sea, seawater, Tianshui, and even the number "nine years" itself, are all familiar in classical poetry and are also in line with the psychological accumulation of national aesthetics. Poets use "cyan", "gold" and "peach" to describe the depth of life (the sea) and realize the beauty of ideals and values, which easily resonates with national psychology. There are three lines in each section, and the rhythm is generally arranged in order. One or two sentences are repeated or arranged in each section. Aab rhymes are generally used in the three lines, and even most sentences are repeated. Reading it, not only has the aesthetic effect of images coming in droves, but also has the satisfaction of a harmonious and pleasant auditory realm. From the creation of emotion and realm, spirit and form of poetry, it makes perfect sense that Dream Chaser is a typical modern oriental symbolic poem that has got rid of the shadow of western symbolic poetry.