Dai Wangshu is a representative figure of modern Chinese Symbolist poetry. He borrows the symbolic artistic conception and atmosphere of French Symbolism to convey emotions. Symbolist poets pursue the idea of ??embedding strong emotions in vague intentions and advocate the importance of poetry. Written like "beautiful eyes behind a veil", it conveys the highest truth in the heart. The aesthetic standard of Dai Wangshu's creation and acceptance is to put poetry between expressing and hiding itself, that is, the hazy beauty of poetry. His famous work "Rain Lane" began to reveal the sentimental mood and thoughts of the Symbolist school.
The artistic characteristics of his poetry are mainly reflected in two aspects:
First, the modern symbolism of traditional poetry, similar to the exaggeration, repetition and hazy imagery of folk songs They are combined without leaving any trace, expressing the poet's helplessness and sadness of struggling in a modern society where ideals have been lost, unwilling to give up, but unable to recover. For example, in "Dream Seeker", the "Dream Seeker" "climbed the iceberg for nine years" and "sailed the dry sea for nine years". When "the dream bloomed", he had "stained hair on the temples" and "eyes". "Hazy", the persistent pursuit spirit is placed in numerous hazy images, and in a poetic form similar to folk songs, it is expressed clearly and implicitly, both clear and hazy. Similarly, in "Paradise Bird", the author's contradictory doubts and questioning about his ideal pursuit are also expressed through images such as "Paradise Bird".
Second, the complex and subtle feelings of modern people are implicitly expressed in a friendly, everyday spoken tone. The language of the two poems "Dream Seeker" and "Paradise Bird" is as clear as words, but obviously different from folk songs, the thoughts and emotions expressed are not single, but complex. The expression of modern people's persistent pursuit of ideals is clear, but the tiredness and sentimentality in the pursuit are confused, hazy, and implicit. This clear and confused style is suitable for expressing the contradictory moods of modern people. .
In addition to the above two aspects, Dai Wangshu's poetry art also has other characteristics. The most prominent one is his use of various techniques in poetry. Such as synesthesia, metaphor, thimble, personification, symbol, overlap, repetition, etc. The line "I lie here/chewing the fragrance of the sun" in "To the Fireflies" has always been praised by people. The poet wonderfully communicates vision, taste and smell, and integrates emotions into one sentence. . Another example is the poem "Autumn Fly": "With a pair of countless eyes/the weak fly is dizzy/such a suffocating afternoon/it scratches its head and stomach helplessly//Konoha, Konoha, Konoha/Boundless The leaves of Konovo are rustling...". In the three-dimensional flowing psychological structure, the poet uses personification to describe the image of autumn flies, permeating his disgust for the declining real world and his helplessness as a political burial object. This multi-element and multi-level psychological process reflects the poet's psychological experience. It uses overlapping words to combine hallucinations, associations and emotional activities, creating a full-sensory or super-sensory "psychological gestalt" with a strong sense of delicacy and depth. In short, the poet uses a variety of artistic techniques to constantly stir the colorful wings of language, giving the poems beauty, vividness and light.