What is the theme of Dai Wangshu's Rain Lane?

Rain Lane is Dai Wangshu's early masterpiece, which earned him the nickname "Rain Lane Poet". This poem was written in the summer of 1927. At that time, the whole country was in a state of white terror. Because Dai Wangshu had participated in progressive activities, he had to take refuge in a friend's house in Songjiang and chew the disillusionment and pain after the failure of the Great Revolution in loneliness. The inner summary is full of confused emotions and hazy hopes. The poem "Rain Lane" is an expression of his state of mind, which is intertwined with the dual emotional appeal of disappointment and hope, disillusionment and pursuit. This feeling was common at that time. "Rain Lane" uses symbolic lyric techniques. The narrow and gloomy rain lane in the poem, the lonely traveler wandering in the rain lane, and the girl who is sad like a clove are all symbolic images. These images constitute a symbolic artistic conception, which implicitly implies the author's confusion, sadness and expectation, giving people a hazy and profound aesthetic feeling. Musicality is another outstanding artistic feature of Rain Lane. This poem uses repetition, repetition and duet, which produces a recurring melody and a pleasant sense of music.

In Rain Lane, the poet created a girl with a lilac knot. Although this is inspired by some works in ancient poems, it is a traditional expression in China's ancient poems to use lilac knots, that is, the buds of lilacs, to symbolize people's worries. For example, Li Shangyin's poem "Giving Gifts" has a poem "Bananas don't show lilac knots, and the spring breeze is sad in the same direction".

He has a song "Huanxisha"

Hand-rolled pearls hook jade, lock the heavy building to shine in the spring. Who is the master in the wind? Take it easy!

Jade birds don't spread the news beyond the clouds, and lilacs are empty and sad in the rain.

In this poem, the lilac knot in the rain is used as a symbol of people's sadness. Obviously, Dai Wangshu absorbed the artistic conception and method of describing sadness from these poems, and formed the artistic conception and image of Rain Lane. This kind of absorption and reference is obvious, but can we say that the artistic conception and image of Rain Lane are the expansion and dilution of the modern vernacular version of the old poem Lilac Knot in the Rain? I don't think so. In forming the artistic conception and image of Rain Lane, the poet not only absorbed the fruit juice of predecessors, but also created his own. First, the ancients used the lilac knot itself as a symbol of sadness in their poems, while Yuxiang imagined a girl as sad as the lilac knot. She has the image of lilacs disappearing in an instant, which is different from the old classical poems written by the poet in his early days and other works full of old poetry.

"Lilac knot in the rain" can not arouse people's hope and disillusionment more than "girl as sad as lilac", and this image is a rare creation in the field of expressing the sorrow of the times. Second, in ancient poetry, the lilac knot in the rain is based on the real life scene to pin the poet's feelings. The poet added his own imagination according to his own life experience. It is the product of artistic imagination, more beautiful than life.