Golden shells symbolize the preciousness and rarity of dreams, highlighting the quiet beauty and brilliance of dreams; Peach beads symbolize the beauty and attraction of dreams, highlighting the static beauty and floweriness of dreams; Icebergs and the vast sea symbolize the difficulty of finding shells (dreams) and are metaphors of all kinds of hardships in the course of life. Sea water and Tianshui symbolize the difficulty of raising shellfish (realizing a dream); Clouds, rain and wind and waves symbolize the richness and value of shellfish and depict a fascinating and beautiful world.
Artistic Features of Dai Wangshu's Poems
The image of traditional poetry, exaggeration and repetition similar to folk songs, and modern symbolic techniques with hazy images are combined together without trace, which shows the helplessness and sadness of the poet struggling in a modern society with lost ideals. He is unwilling to give up but unable to recover. The dreamer climbed an iceberg for nine years and sailed in the dry sea for nine years. When the dream blooms, he is full of spots and hazy eyes, and his persistent pursuit spirit is placed in many hazy images.
The friendly daily oral tone implicitly expresses the complex and subtle feelings of modern people. The two poems, Dreamcatcher and Birds in Heaven, are clear in language, but obviously different from folk songs, and the thoughts and feelings expressed are not single, but complex. The expression of modern people's persistent pursuit of ideals is clear, but the fatigue and sadness in the pursuit are confused, hazy and implicit. This clear and chaotic style is just suitable for expressing the contradictory mood of modern people.