The poet imitates a beautiful life as a girl like lilac. The poet clearly saw her, but he couldn't get close to her. It was as beautiful as a dream and as far away as a dream.
Through a "lilac-like girl", the poet expressed his desire to pursue a beautiful ideal and the emptiness and sadness after the disillusionment of the ideal, which reflected the poet's dissatisfaction and disappointment with reality and revealed the complicated inner world of intellectuals who were dissatisfied with reality and could not find a way out at that time.
The summer when Rain Lane produced 1927 was the darkest time in the history of China. The bloody slaughter of revolutionaries by reactionaries caused a white terror that enveloped the whole country. Young people who enthusiastically responded to the revolution suddenly fell from the climax of the fire into the abyss of the night. Some of them can't find the future of revolution. They are lost in pain, they long for new hope in disappointment, and they expect beautiful rainbows floating in the haze. Rain Lane reflects the mentality of some progressive young people.
Dai Wangshu was only twenty-one or twenty-two years old when he wrote this poem. More than a year ago, he engaged in revolutionary literary activities with his classmates Du Heng, Shi Zhecun and Liu Naou, joined the * * * Youth League, and devoted himself to the party's propaganda work with his passionate pen. 1927 In March, he was arrested and detained by the reactionary authorities for propagating the revolution. After the "April 12th" coup, he lived in seclusion in Songjiang, Jiangsu Province, chewing "China people's distress in this era" in loneliness. ("Wang Shucao/Preface") His poems such as "Rain Lane" at this time are naturally full of feelings of hesitation, disappointment, sadness and pain. Early poems mostly describe personal loneliness and have a strong sentimental atmosphere. Influenced by western symbolism, these images are hazy and implicit. The later poems showed strong feelings of loving the motherland and hating the invaders, and eager for a better future, and the poetic style was clear and sincere.
The summer when Rain Lane produced 1927 was the darkest time in the history of China. The bloody slaughter of revolutionaries by reactionaries caused a white terror that enveloped the whole country. Young people who enthusiastically responded to the revolution suddenly fell from the climax of the fire into the abyss of the night. Some of them can't find the future of revolution. They are lost in pain, they long for new hope in disappointment, and they expect beautiful rainbows floating in the haze. After the "April 12th" coup, he lived in seclusion in Songjiang, Jiangsu Province, chewing "China people's distress in this era" in loneliness. Poems such as Rain Lane written by him at this time are naturally full of feelings of hesitation, disappointment, sadness and pain.