The role of the small town in the night rain in paragraph 6 of the phoenix feathers in the article: it has symbolic significance and is an important part of the artistic conception of the poem. In this section of "A Piece of Phoenix Feather", the poet expresses his loneliness and homesickness wandering in a foreign land by describing the scene of the small town. As an image in the poem, the small town has symbolic meaning and represents the poet's deep inner emotions and thoughts. It is an important part of the artistic conception of poetry.