A good lyric poem should be the crystallization of artistic beauty. It will transcend the limitation of time and space and arouse people's aesthetic feelings. ? However, for many years, Dai Wangshu's poems such as Rain Lane have been regarded as the moans of symbolism and modernism, and have been excluded from the vision of literary history. Only recently did people dig these works out of the forgotten dust like unearthed cultural relics and see their artistic brilliance again. ? Dai Wangshu left us only more than 90 lyric short poems on the bumpy and tortuous creative road for more than 20 years. Rain Lane is one of his early famous works. ? Rain Lane was written in the summer of 1927. First published in Novel Monthly, Volume 19, No.8, published in August, 1928. Du Heng, a close friend of Dai Wangshu, wrote in 1933: Speaking of Rain Lane, it is difficult for us to give Mr. Ye Shengtao the bottom prize. Almost a year after Rain Lane was written, Mr. Ye Shengtao was editing Novel Monthly when Wang Shucai suddenly posted it. As soon as Mr. Shengtao saw this poem, he sent a letter praising him for opening a new horizon for the syllables of the new poem. ..... strongly recommended by Mr. Shengtao, Wang Shu got the title of "Rain Lane" poet until now. (Preface to Wang Shucao)? Rain Lane creates a lyrical artistic conception with strong symbolic color. Here, the poet metaphorically described the dark and dreary social reality at that time as a narrow and lonely "rain lane". There is no sound, no joy, no sunshine here. The poet himself is such a lonely person wandering in the rain lane. He has hopeless hopes in loneliness. I hope there is a beautiful ideal in front of me. The "lilac-like" girl described by the poet is a symbol of this beautiful ideal. However, the poet knows that this beautiful ideal is difficult to realize. She is as full of sadness and melancholy as herself, fleeting and drifting away like a dream. What is left is only the poet himself who is still wandering in the dark reality, and the hope that the dream that cannot be realized generally floats away! ? Some critics say that in Rain Lane, the poet used beautiful imagination to cover up the ugly truth and self-liberation, and "deceived himself and readers with some gorgeous fantasies like soap bubbles". There is no "merit in content" except the artistic beauty of harmonious melody. (Fanny: On Dai Wangshu's Poems, Literature Review1980,4) These questions and comments are too simple and harsh for Yu Xiang in Mandarin. ? The summer of 1927 produced by Rain Lane was the darkest time in the history of China. The reactionaries slaughtered the revolutionaries, which caused the white terror that enveloped the whole country. Young people who enthusiastically responded to the revolution suddenly fell from the climax of the fire into the abyss of the night. Some of them can't find the future of revolution.
They are lost in pain, they long for new hope in disappointment, and they expect beautiful rainbows floating in the haze. Rain Lane reflects the mentality of some progressive young people. Dai Wangshu was only twenty-one or twenty-two years old when he wrote this poem. More than a year ago, he engaged in revolutionary literary activities with his classmates Du Heng, Shi Zhecun and Liu Naou, joined the * * * Youth League, and devoted himself to the party's propaganda work with his passionate pen. 1927 In March, he was arrested and detained by the reactionary authorities for propagating the revolution. After the "April 12th" coup, he lived in seclusion in Songjiang, Jiangsu Province, chewing "China people's distress in this era" in loneliness. (Preface to Wang Shucao) His poems such as Rain Lane at this time are naturally full of feelings of hesitation, disappointment, sadness and pain. This feeling of hesitation and sadness can't be said to be a pure personal lament, but a projection of the darkness of reality and the disillusionment of ideals in the poet's heart. Rain Lane reproduces the typical voices in the hearts of these young people with short lyrical singing. Here we really can't hear the description of real suffering, and we can't hear the cry against the darkness. This is a deep confession, a confession of disappointment. However, from this kind of reflection and introspection, can't we clearly see the pain and pursuit of some young people after their disillusionment? The pain of losing good hope flows in the poem. Even the young people at that time were not so easily deceived. People don't want to wander in the rain lane forever after watching Rain Lane. People hate this rainy lane and are eager to get out of it and go to a wide and bright place without rain and sorrow.