Symbolic meaning: The girl who looks like a lilac symbolizes the ideal of saving the country that intellectuals like Dai Wangshu strive to pursue. They groped forward in the darkness and searched hard for the road to save the country, which also symbolized China's hope.
"Rain Lane" is Dai Wangshu's famous work. The narrow and gloomy rain lane in "Rain Lane", the lone walker wandering in the rain lane, and the girl who is as sad as a lilac are all symbolic images. Some people interpret these images as a microcosm of the dark society at that time, or of people who failed in the revolution and their hazy, intermittent hope.
These images together constitute a symbolic artistic conception, which implicitly hints at the author's feelings of confusion, sadness and expectation, and gives people a hazy and deep sense of beauty. Extended information
"Rain Alley" was written in the summer of 1927, after the bloody "April 12" massacre. The poet was 22 years old. The poet, who was once arrested for joining the revolution, faced the white terror that enveloped the country and was lost in pain and confusion.
He lived in seclusion at a friend's house in Songjiang, Jiangsu Province, chewing on "the troubles of being Chinese in this era" in loneliness, "sitting at night listening to the wind, sleeping during the day listening to the rain", looking forward to the beautiful things floating in the haze rainbow. But life is poor, and he "reads books by the pillow under the bright moon by the window" all day long. The poet can only seek solace in "the footprints of the old days", "the colorful clothes of youth" and lingering under the stars.
The gentleness, melancholy and pressure of the times make "Rain Lane" a projection of the darkness of reality and disillusionment of ideals in the poet's heart, filled with emotions of hesitation, disappointment, sentimentality and pain.
Dai Wangshu's poems contain the elegance and elegance of classical Chinese poetry, but are also influenced by the French Symbolic Poetry School. Therefore, his early poems generally express a sense of loneliness, depression and depression. Features.
This poem is both real and imaginary, hazy and trance-like. "I" seems to be full of worries and endless worries, but I don't want to express them clearly, or I am unable to express them. "I" seems to be expecting something and pursuing something, but the goals of expectation and pursuit seem so distant and elusive.
"She" appeared, maybe in an illusion, or maybe it was real, but "she" appeared so quickly and passed so quickly, passing by and disappearing in an instant. Ahead, "as sad and confused as a dream."
"I" can only feel sorry for myself and lament myself. We can think of the "girl" in the poem as an actual reference, the beautiful, noble and melancholy girl that the poet has been waiting for for a long time. But we can also regard this "girl" as the vague ideals and pursuits in the poet's heart, representing the poet's vague longing for the future when he is trapped in the depression of life.
Reference: Yuxiang-Baidu Encyclopedia