Book Review "Rain Alley" Phoenix.com written by Xia Weiran
"Rain Alley" by Mr. Dai Wangshu is a melancholy poem. The encounter between a Jiangnan girl and "me" floated by in the rainy alley. In "my" waiting, she appears, floats by like a lilac, and then dissipates in the "lament of rain". Encountering each other is just imagination; passing by the wrong person is an inevitable tragedy. In the tiny words, "she" and "I" appeared, but "I" watched her disappear, like a dream. The poet held an oil-paper umbrella and wandered in the lonely rainy alley, imagining meeting a girl he hoped to meet. This is not a real chance encounter, but an imaginary encounter. And that lilac-like girl from the south of the Yangtze River may be a girl descended from the former Qing prime minister, or she may be the girl next door in the poet's past. In fact, it no longer matters who she is, she will eventually disappear from the poet's sight.
It is a beautiful lyric poem. Against the background of strong symbolic colors, it nakedly reflects the poet's tortuous and subtle inner world. In a low and beautiful tone, a gloomy picture of the Jiangnan alleys in the plum rain season is presented in front of us. With sadness, the poet placed himself in the long rainy alley, becoming a lonely person who wandered repeatedly. There was no sound, no joy, and no sunshine, only hesitation and sadness. This was the long, narrow and lonely "Rain Lane", and it was also the dark and dull social reality at that time. He cherishes a beautiful hope in his loneliness, hoping that the beautiful ideal in his heart can be realized. However, the poet obviously knows that good wishes are difficult to realize. As a result, it passed away in an instant, leaving only myself wandering in the dark reality. Here, the poet's complex emotions of being unable to grasp his ideal and unwilling to give up his ideal are fully revealed.
The image of "lilac" in "Rain Alley" gives the poem a confusing beauty. Lilac knots, the buds of lilacs, symbolize people's sorrow. Li Jing also wrote a song about lilacs in "Huanxi Sand": "The hand-rolled pearls are attached with jade hooks, and the heavy building is locked with the regret of the previous spring. Who is the owner of the falling flowers in the wind? Thinking long and hard! The bluebird does not spread the message from the clouds, the lilacs are empty in the rain Sorrow. Looking back at the green waves, three Chu twilight, and connecting with the sky. "Ding Xiangjie and Yu Zhongchou have been linked together in the writings of this empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the hands of the poet, lilac takes on further meaning. He imagined a girl who was as sad as a lilac, with "the color of a lilac", "the fragrance of a lilac", and "the sadness of a lilac". As a result, it became the embodiment of beautiful ideals containing sadness, including the poet's pursuit of beauty and the pain of the poet's disillusionment of his good wishes. The poet once said: "Poetry is made from reality through imagination. It is not only real, nor just imagination." The girl who looked like lilacs in the rain finally dissipated under the influence of his thoughts, which reflected the disillusionment of the poet's ideals at that time.
In the new poetry, "Rain Alley" is a "sad" text. The "lilac" image, the blurred musical beauty and the ups and downs of emotions in the poem give it a strange sense of beauty. In the rainy alley of literature, readers are often not satisfied with "hoping to meet a girl as sad and resentful as a lilac", but also want to catch her, so she floats by "like a lilac in a dream" Beside us, it disappears in our sight... This is where its "sorrow" lies.