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 a wanderer, walking alone in such a rainy lane. "I" still cherish the longing and pursuit of beautiful ideals and hopes in loneliness.
The extended material 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.
Rain Lane was first praised by people, and an important aspect is its beautiful syllables. Ye Shengtao praised this poem as "opening a new era for the syllables of new poetry". Although he was somewhat praised, he was insightful when he first saw the beautiful syllables of this poem. Rain Lane consists of seven poems. The first section and the last section are exactly the same except that "meet" is changed to "float".
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuxiang