Dai Wangshu's Rain Lane is a modern poem describing hutong.
Rain Lane-Dai Wangshu
Holding an oil-paper umbrella, alone
Wandering in the long, long
Lonely rain lane
I hope to meet
Like a lilac.
A girl with a grudge.
She does.
Clove-like color
Lilac fragrance
Lilac-like sorrow
Mourn in the rain
Sad and confused
She wanders in this lonely rain lane
Hold an oil-paper umbrella
Like me
Like me.
In silence
Cold, sad, and melancholy.
She approached silently.
Approaching, throwing again.
Breathing eyes
She drifted by
Like a dream
Sad and confused like a dream
Floating like a dream
A lilac
I passed this girl by.
She silently away, away.
To the crumbling hedge.
Walk through this rainy lane
In the sad song of the rain
Remove her color.
Scattered her fragrance.
Disappeared, even hers
Breathing eyes
Lilac melancholy.
Holding an oil-paper umbrella, alone
Wandering in the long, long
Lonely rain lane
I hope to float by.
Like a lilac.
A girl with a grudge.
Rain Lane was written in the summer of 1927, after the bloody "April 12th" massacre. The poet was 22 years old. The poet who was arrested for joining the revolution was lost in pain in the face of the white terror that enveloped the whole country. The softness of personality, melancholy and the pressure of the times make Rain Lane a projection of reality darkness and disillusionment in the poet's mind, full of feelings of hesitation, disappointment and sadness.
This poem is both real and empty, hazy and trance. "I" seems to be full of worries and infinite worries, but I don't want to say it clearly or I can't say it. The "girl" in the poem can be considered as a real reference, a beautiful, noble and melancholy girl that the poet has been waiting for for a long time. But we can also regard this "girl" as a hazy ideal and pursuit in the poet's heart, which represents the poet's dim vision for the future when he is depressed in life.
Dai Wangshu (1905 1 1 month 15-1February 28th, 950), male, named Cheng, whose word is Chao 'an, nicknamed Haishan, was born in Hangzhou County, Zhejiang Province (now Yuhang District, Hangzhou). Later, he used the pen names Meng Ou, Meng Ou Sheng, Xin Fang and Jiang Si. China modernist symbolist poet, translator, etc. He has published three novels in the publications of Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School: Debt, Businessman Boy and Motherly Love. Once with Du Heng, Zhang Tianyi and Shi Zhecun, a small literary group called "Lan She" was established, and the periodical "Lan You" was founded. 1950 Dai Wangshu died in Beijing at the age of 45.