Dai Wangshu is a modern symbolist poet in my country.
Dai Wangshu (November 15, 1905 - February 28, 1950), male, given name Cheng, courtesy name Chao'an, nickname Haishan, was from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Later, he used the pen names Meng Ou, Meng Ou Sheng, Xin Fang, Jiang Si, etc.
Chinese modern symbolist poets, translators, etc. He has published three novels in the journals of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School: "Debt", "The Busting Boy" and "Mother's Love".
He once established a small literary group called "Lanshe" with Du Heng, Zhang Tianyi, Shi Zhecun and others, and founded the ten-day issue of "Lanyou". Dai Wangshu died of illness in Beijing in 1950 at the age of 45.
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Dai Wangshu had an indissoluble bond with three women throughout his life. His first love was Shi Zhecun’s sister Shi Jiangnian, and his first wife was Mu Shiying’s sister Mu Lijuan.
The second wife was Yang Jing, but none of the three women could stay with him for a lifetime. In the end, only the love tragedy was left that made the poet unforgettable in his life.
Therefore, in Dai Wangshu's poems, melancholy has become the main starting point, and it also contains the classical life experience. Dai Wangshu's love experience is modern, his love characteristics are modern, but the form of expression he gives is classical and traditional.
The biggest reason why Dai Wangshu can remain famous in the history of literature is the excellent poetry he wrote. He himself was also called a modern school of poetry in the late 1920s and early 1930s because of his unique style of poetry. "Leader of Poetry".
In 1927, his poem "Rain Alley" showed the transition trend from the Crescent School to the Modern School, and "My Memory" created in 1929 became the starting point of the modern school of poetry.
The beautiful, noble and melancholy girl in "Rain Alley" that the poet has been waiting for for a long time. We can also regard this "girl" as the hazy ideal and pursuit in the poet's heart, which represents the poet's depression in life. At that time, I had a vague vision of the future.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dai Wangshu