Rain Symbolism Essay

The Symbolism of Rain in Chinese and Foreign Literature and Songs on Bad Luck

Ⅰ. Introduction It has been seen that almost all authors use symbol within their works of literature in order to pull the attention of their readers. Using such symbolic concept it helps the authors in creating a secondary meaning. It also helps in connecting the gaps. Symbols need a careful analysis while in some circumstance it is quite clear. For example, water can be seen in many forms in literature including waterfalls, lakes, rivers, streams, or rain. The meaning of water symbol in literature can be taken in many ways. However, today the protagonist is rain.

Wang Guozhen once wrote some words on his essay to describe rain like this: When you're in a good

Rain brings an abundance of it bringing the dead and dry lands back to life. It is great for agriculture without which human beings can’t live.

3.Anti monotony

Rain isn't exactly regular. It doesn't happen everyday this is an element’ and there are also many classification of rain: sprinkle/drizzle, scattered rain, sleet, shower, light rain, moderate rain, heavy rain, torrential rain and downpour. Furthermore, after rain there always appears rainbow, and because the appearance of rainbow it makes rain more beautiful and lovely.

B.Negative symbols

Rain also took human bad feelings and human do not always love rain.

1.Restriction/Imprisonment

If you go out in the rain, you get sick. This is common sense. So rain limits you to outdoors. Thus, it symbolizing restriction.

2.Gloominess

Rain has a natural gloomy feeling, a feeling that dulls emotions. Because rainy days are always overcast and sunless.

3.Coldness

It can represent ruthless, inconsiderate, uncaring iciness. So that can be a great comparison to a character in a story, especially if it is raining at that time. Rain gets to fall as snow and solidifies into ice in certain conditions and snow is seen as severe cold.

From those people's inner activities, rainfall disrupts the rhythm of man’s lives, and it makes people stop their busy steps and think about something. Compared to the noise of rain, people’s inner world becomes more silent; in this state people have more time to think about their life. Coincidentally, most of time it rains, mans’ thoughts are always negative about rain.

(3)“其实一场雨，说不定瞬间就会戛然而止，一如突如其来的死亡... ...”

Such word wrote by an old man named Yang Aimin, in the essay Rain, Do You Know I’m Listening Mr. Yang connected Rain and Death, he thought death maybe come in a sudden like the rain. Nobody knows when he will leave the world. How realistic and cruel. Helpless and hopeless the author is telling to us. .......

(4) “When you get caught in the rain with no where to run, When you’re distraught and in pain without anyone, When ou keep crying out to be saved but nobody comes, And you fell so far away that you just can’t find your way home.”

When one fells lost, every drops of the rain fall to the ground like the sound of a sigh. In fact, those idle thoughts are not unwarranted, all those boundless assumptions which look like mental patients’ action are not insane； they’re caused by unheard and lonely. Because of lonely, it dresses the rain a cloth of cold and