He has good hopes in loneliness. I hope there is a beautiful ideal in front of me. The "lilac-like" girl described by the poet is a symbol of this beautiful ideal.
However, the poet knows that this beautiful ideal is difficult to realize. She is as full of sadness and melancholy as herself, fleeting and drifting away like a dream. What is left is only the poet himself who is still wandering in the dark reality, and the hope that the dream that cannot be realized generally floats away.
Extended Material Rain Lane is a famous work by Dai Wangshu. By describing the narrow and gloomy rain lane, the lonely traveler wandering in the rain lane and the girl who is as sad as lilac, the author implicitly implies the author's confusion, sadness and expectation, giving people a hazy and profound aesthetic feeling.
Some people interpret these images as a microcosm of the dark society at that time, or as people who failed in the revolution and hazy and intermittent hopes.
Rain Lane was written in the summer of 1927, after the bloody "412" massacre. The poet is 22 years old. The poet, who was arrested for taking part in the revolution, fell into pain in the face of the white terror that enveloped the whole country. He lives in seclusion in a friend's house in Songjiang, Jiangsu, chewing "being the distress of China people in this era", "sitting in the night listening to the wind and sleeping in the night listening to the rain", expecting a gorgeous rainbow to float in the haze.
But living in poverty, poets can only seek comfort in "old footprints", "colorful clothes of youth" and wandering under the stars. The softness of personality and the pressure of the times make Rain Lane a projection of reality darkness and disillusionment in the poet's heart, full of feelings of hesitation, disappointment and sadness.
References:
Yuxiang-Baidu Encyclopedia