Rain Lane is a famous work by Dai Wangshu. This poem swept away the frank and frank style of poetry at that time and made a valuable exploration on the integration of Chinese and western poetry techniques. Specifically, it is a combination of symbolism poetry skills and China's classical poetry images.
The most intuitive aesthetic feeling of this poem is the beauty of music. Wandering, Long, Rain Lane, Lilac, Maiden, Melancholy and Confusion all use Tang Yun or Jiang Yang Zhe to echo sighs, which adds to the melancholy feeling of the whole poem.
Its use in rhyme is different from that in classical poetry, and it is directly influenced by the symbolist poet Wei Erlun. It adopts a relatively free poetic style, which allows the same consonant and vowel to appear repeatedly between the lines of a poem, so as to achieve auditory harmony and strengthen a certain poetic effect.
This technology was very new at that time. Ye Shengtao said that Rain Lane "opened a new era for the final syllable of new poetry" (Du Heng: Preface to Wang Shucao), and he praised the unconventional musical beauty of Rain Lane. Conceptually, Rain Lane also presents the hazy theme of symbolic poetry.
This poem was written in 1927 when the Great Revolution failed, and most critics thought it had something to trust. It can be regarded as the poet's vague pursuit of ideal things and his sad and frustrated mood in the dark reality, as well as his yearning for the revolutionary cause and the expression of disillusionment after the failure of the Great Revolution.
If we combine the poet's repeated setbacks in youth and love at that time, we can also return to the superficial meaning of the poem, that is, we think that the poet yearns for and loves the girl who is as sad as lilac, but can't love it, and the yearning for love is faint.
The imagery in the poem is pure China, and lilacs and sadness are common allusions in China's classical poems. Li Shangyin once wrote a poem, "Bananas don't show lilac knots, and they are worried about the spring breeze"; Li Jing also said that "the bluebird is not outside the cloud, and the lilacs are sad in the rain."
But in this poem, the image of lilac has developed, not only with sadness, but also with fragrance and color, which has become synonymous with good things. As an artistic quality, Dai Wangshu's classical literary accomplishment has become an important part of his aesthetic ideal, which makes his poems not obscure when drawing nutrients from foreign poems.
He paid attention to the use of traditional images of China's classical poetry, and integrated modern western poetry techniques, thus forming his own characteristics of poetry techniques. Rain Lane is a perfect fusion of Chinese and western poetic arts, and a masterpiece that can not be ignored in the history of modern new poetry.