Author: Dai Wangshu
Holding an oil-paper umbrella alone
Wandering in the long, long
Lonely rain lane,
I hope to see
Like cloves.
A girl with a grudge.
She does.
Clove-like color,
Lilac-like fragrance,
Sad as cloves,
Mourning in the rain,
Sadness and hesitation;
She lingers in this lonely rain lane,
Hold an oil-paper umbrella
Like me,
Like me.
voicelessly
Cold, sadness and melancholy.
She approached quietly,
Get close and throw again.
Breathing eyes
She floated by.
Like a dream,
As sad and confused as a dream.
well
A lilac field,
I passed this girl by;
She left silently, left,
A crumbling fence,
Walk through this rainy path.
In the lamentation of the rain,
Remove her color,
Spread her fragrance,
Disappeared, even hers
Breathing eyes
Lilac is melancholy.
Holding an oil-paper umbrella alone
Wandering in the long, long
Lonely rain lane,
I hope to float over.
Like cloves.
A girl with a grudge.
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Brief introduction of the author
Dai Wangshu (1905—— 1950), a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, is a famous modern poet in China. The collection of poems includes My Memory, Wang Shucao, Wang Shushi and Disaster Year.
Early poems mostly describe personal loneliness and have a strong sentimental atmosphere. Influenced by western symbolism, these images are hazy and implicit. The poems in the later period showed strong feelings of loving the motherland and hating the invaders, and eager for a better future, with clear and sincere poetic style.
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After explaining the general content of the poem Rain Lane, let's analyze the characteristics of this poem in writing techniques.
We can see that this poem is ostensibly about a pair of young men and women who met in a rainy lane and separated silently, which shocked their thoughts and feelings. We can believe that the events written in the poem are based on similar real events in the poet's life; But even so, it is not difficult to see that what is written in poetry has another symbolic meaning.
Among them, Lilac Girl can be regarded as both the embodiment of the poet's ideal lover and the symbol of other ideals pursued by the poet. The "Rain Lane" can be regarded as a realistic alley in the rainy season of cities in the south of the Yangtze River, and it can also be regarded as a symbol of the poet's social living environment (the "broken fence" in the rain lane is a micro-level symbol of love failure or disillusionment). As for the story of two young men and women meeting unexpectedly and meeting each other late in Rain Lane, it can be regarded as the reappearance of a true love event, and also a symbol of the author's mental journey of pursuing ideals but failing to succeed.
The poet's feelings expressed in his poems are not only the poet's lament for the failure of love, but also the poet's mourning for the disillusionment of ideals. After understanding the symbolic meaning of the whole poem, we will find that the meaning of this poem is actually much richer than the literal meaning.
In addition to this literal meaning, there is a metaphorical relationship between meaning and literal meaning, that is, symbolic meaning. The symbolism of this poem is caused by the symbolism adopted by the poet. The so-called symbol (that is, metaphor), that is, on the surface, only the vehicle is written (the implied ontology does not appear), but secretly it points to the ontology through the vehicle. Because the ontology does not appear in the symbol, the receiver can have different or multiple understandings of what the ontology refers to in the vehicle, which leads to the uncertainty of the symbol meaning.
Different from scientific and theoretical activities (the pursuit of semantic accuracy and oneness), in the creation and appreciation of poems and songs, people often pursue the richness, diversity and even vagueness and secrecy of meaning, and the use of symbolism is an important way to meet this demand. The poet Dai Wangshu was deeply influenced by the French symbolism (especially the poems translated by Dai Zeng) and advocated symbolism. This poem is a successful example of his use of symbolism to create China vernacular poems.
It is worth noting that Dai Wangshu, a poet, adopted the comprehensive symbolism poetry creation method (explanation: the comprehensive symbolism creation method includes not only narrow symbolism, but also the creation of novel and peculiar symbolic images, the application of synaesthesia (the metonymy and extraordinary combination of various senses), the description and arrangement of colors, and the creation of music. ) It can be said that it was mainly imported from France (symbolism in a narrow sense was also widely used in China's ancient poems and songs).
Because: "Lilac" is used to describe "girl" in poetry, which is a common symbolic image in China's ancient poems and songs; The poem's "Rain Lane" is a typical style of Jiangnan city in China. The "lilac-like girl" who appeared in the "Rain Lane" of Jiangnan city with an oil-paper umbrella is obviously a female image with the characteristics of China Jiangnan.
The perfect combination of complete China in content and comprehensive Westernization in expression makes it easier for ordinary readers in China to understand the general content of this poem, instead of being ignorant of foreign things and at a loss like some modernist poems and songs. It can be said that the poet Dai Wangshu's Rain Lane is a successful example of the perfect combination of French symbolism and China's traditional poetry images.