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 fragrance
Lilac sadness
Mourn in the rain
Sad and confused
She lingers in this lonely rain lane
Hold an oil-paper umbrella
Like me
Like me.
voicelessly
Cold desert, melancholy, and melancholy.
She approached quietly.
Get close and throw again.
Breathing eyes
She floated by.
well
As sad and confused as a dream.
Floating like a dream
Dingxiangyuan
I missed this girl.
She walked away silently, walked away.
A ramshackle hedge.
Walk through this rainy path
In the sad song of rain
Remove her color.
Scattered her fragrance.
Disappeared, even hers
Breathing eyes
Lavender 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.
2. Rain Lane is Dai Wangshu's early masterpiece. After the poem was published, it had a great influence, so the poet was called "Rain Lane Poet". Poetry depicts a gloomy picture of Jiangnan alleys during the rainy season, which constitutes a lyrical artistic conception with strong symbolic color. Here, the poet figuratively described the dark and gloomy social reality at that time as a narrow and lonely "rain lane" without sunshine and vitality. The lyric hero "I" is such a lonely wanderer in the rainy lane. "I" still cherish the longing and pursuit of beautiful ideals and hopes in loneliness. The "lilac-like girl" in the poem is a symbol of this beautiful ideal. However, this beautiful ideal is slim and difficult to realize. This mentality is a true reflection of some young intellectuals who pursued after the failure of the Great Revolution. They were in a state of confusion because they could not find a way out under low political pressure. In art, this poem also clearly reflects the creative characteristics of Dai Wangshu's early poems. It not only adopts symbolism and symbolism, but also has the pursuit of musical beauty. "I", "Rain Lane" and "Girl" in the poem are not concrete portrayal of life, but lyrical images full of symbolic significance. The whole poem also echoes with smooth rhythm and melody. The sense of melody mainly comes from the rhyme feet, except that each rhyme foot rhymes in the third and sixth lines, and each rhyme foot selects many sound groups corresponding to the rhyme feet. The application of overlap and repetition in poetry also enhances the musical effect. As Ye Shengtao said, Rain Lane is "opening a new era for the syllables of new poetry".
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 participated in progressive activities, he had to take refuge in a friend's house in Songjiang, chewing the disillusionment and pain after the failure of the Great Revolution in loneliness, and his heart was full of lost 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 adopts symbolic lyrical techniques. The narrow and gloomy rain lane in the poem, the lonely traveler wandering in the rain lane, and the girl as sad as lilac 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. In the poem, repetition of sounds, repetition of sentences, repetition of singing and other techniques are used, resulting in the cycle of melody and pleasant sense of music. Therefore, Mr. Ye Shengtao praised this poem for opening a "new era" for the syllables of China's new poems.
In Rain Lane, the poet created a girl with a lilac knot. Although this is inspired by some works in ancient poetry. It is a traditional expression in ancient Chinese poetry to use lilac knots, that is, lilac buds, to symbolize people's worries. For example, there is a poem in Li Shangyin's "Gifts for Generations" that says "bananas don't show lilac knots, but they are worried about the spring breeze in the same direction". In the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Jing tied a lilac knot with me in the rain.