What's the difference between the beginning and the end of a rainy lane?
A Jiangnan girl and "I" met and floated in the rain lane. While waiting for "I", she appeared, floating like a lilac, and then dissipated in the "elegy of the rain". Meeting is just an imagination. Mispassing is an inevitable tragedy. In the fragmentary words, "she" and "I" appeared, while "I" watched her disappear as if it were a dream. The poet walked in a deserted rain lane with an oil-paper umbrella, dreaming of meeting a girl he hoped to meet. This is not a real encounter, but an imaginary encounter. And the girl like lilac in Jiangnan may be the former. It doesn't matter who she is, she will eventually disappear from the poet's sight. This is a beautiful lyric poem. Against the strong symbolic color, it reflects the poet's tortuous inner world naked. In a low and beautiful tone, a gloomy picture of Jiangnan alleys in the rainy season appeared in front of him. With sadness, the poet puts himself in a long rainy lane and becomes a lonely man who wanders repeatedly. There is no sound, no joy and no joy. Only hesitation and sadness, this is a narrow and lonely "rain lane", which is also a dark and depressing social reality at that time. He has a good hope in loneliness, hoping that his beautiful ideal can be realized. However, the poet clearly knows that good wishes are difficult to achieve. So fleeting, let yourself wander in the dark reality. Here, the poet's complex emotions of being unable to grasp the ideal and unwilling to give up the ideal are fully revealed. Holding an oil-paper umbrella, he wandered in a long and lonely rain lane, and the poet walked alone in the rain lane. His vacillating gait clearly reveals his inner loneliness and depression. Alleys, drizzle, a lonely poet with an oil-paper umbrella, and his vacillating gait-these are the first few sentences of this poem that show us. After the above lens, there is a poet's inner monologue in the poem: I hope to meet a girl as sad as lilac. This "lilac-like girl" is not a real person in the real world, but a fictional character imagined by the poet (he hopes to meet). What kind of girl is this? The poem goes on to say: she has the same color as lilac, the same fragrance and the same sadness. Lilacs bloom in mid-spring, and the color is white or purple, giving people a feeling of weakness, beauty, purity and solemnity. Lilacs are beautiful but easy to wither, and ancient poets in China often hurt spring when they face lilacs. It is said that lilacs are a source of sadness. There are many famous sentences chanting lilacs in China's ancient poems, such as: "The bluebird doesn't spread the news outside the cloud, and lilacs are sad in the rain" ("Huanxi Yarn" by Li Can in the southern Tang Dynasty); "lilacs are weak, and the branches are still falling"; "Bananas don't show lilac knots, and the spring breeze is sad in the same direction"; And so on. Due to the repeated chanting and widespread singing of ancient poets in China, lilacs have gradually become a symbol of something with this attribute in the hearts of China people (especially literati). The "girl" in Rain Lane is a female image endowed by the ancient poets in China with the above attributes-she has both the graceful posture and color of lilacs and the nobleness of lilacs. It also has the sad characteristics of cloves (given by ancient poets). Such a "girl" like the soul of lilac seems to have her own life once she is created by the poet's imagination. In the poem, she also moves like a real person: she wanders in this lonely rain lane. Holding an oil-paper umbrella, like me. Like me, silent, indifferent, sad and melancholy. In the rain lane written in the poem, only the poet walks alone. Since the "Lilac Girl" appeared, there have been two people walking in it; Moreover, the girl's gait, expression and even the oil-paper umbrella in her hand are the same as those of a poet. The appearance of such a person obviously filled the poet's heart with expectation and hope. In the "long and lonely rain lane", there are now two lonely young men and women in the activities. So, what happens next? This is what we want to know, and it is exactly what the poet wanted to know at that time. The poem continued: She silently approached and took a breath. She is as erratic as a dream. Sad and confused like a dream, she finally approached the poet (we can imagine the poet's heartbeat at the moment), but she didn't say hello to the poet, just threw a sighing look at the poet, and then, as light as a dream, floated past without a trace! (We shout in our hearts: Why is this so? When she drifted past the poet, the poet saw that her expression was sad and confused. This expression clearly reveals that she is actually unwilling to part with the poet. But for some (unclear) reasons, she had to miss the poet! As the saying goes: life is a rare confidant! What a pity that these two young men and women (even with the same expression and gait) accidentally missed each other in the rainy lane! How sad it is for the poet to miss a possible beautiful marriage like this. In the emotional state of being reluctant to go, the poet watched the "Lilac Girl" drifting away in the rain lane: like a lilac field drifting in a dream, I drifted over this girl; She walked away silently, walked away, and walked towards the ruined fence. She walked through the rainy path. When she passed a destroyed fence, it was a concrete symbol of the disillusionment of the poet's desire to be with Lilac Girl. "Lilac Girl" finally disappeared at the end of the rain lane. But at this time, the poet is still in a state of distraction. Even if he never saw "Lilac Girl" again, he still felt the dim light left by "Lilac Girl" and the color and fragrance in the cold air in the rain lane. He was saddened by the continuous dissipation of this color and fragrance: her color disappeared in the sad song of the rain. Scattered her fragrance, dissipated, even her sighing eyes, lilac-like melancholy. (We can imagine:) The poet stood alone in the rain lane, reminiscing for a long time about the color and fragrance he felt when he met "Lilac Girl". Even her eyes are full of sighs and melancholy, but the cruel reality can't accommodate beautiful love or ideals. At the end of the poem, we see that in the "long and lonely rain lane", only the poet is wandering alone: wandering alone in the long and lonely rain lane with an oil-paper umbrella, hoping to float past a girl with a lilac knot. At the end of the poem, the poet seems to repeat the scene that appeared at the beginning of the poem. The first paragraph is almost the same as the second paragraph, except that "(I hope) meet" is changed to "(I hope) float". This change, on the one hand, shows that the poet has not completely given up hope, on the other hand, it also makes people feel that the poet's hope is getting more and more slim. Therefore, after reading the last verse of the poem, we can't help but feel that the despair, helplessness and melancholy in the poem have deepened.