Section 1 of Farewell to Cambridge is about thousands of parting worries of long-lost students when they leave their alma mater. The use of the three words "tenderness" makes us feel that the poet seems to stand on tiptoe, like a breeze, quietly swinging away; And the deepest affection, in the tide, has become a "floating cloud in the west." At the same time, it reveals the inseparable feelings and sets the lyric tone for the poem. Verses 2 to 6 describe the poet boating on the He Kang River in search of his dreams. The golden willows covered with sunset glow, the green grass on the soft mud and the pool under the shade of the tree all come into view. The two metaphors are quite accurate: the first one boldly imagines the "golden willow by the river" as a "bride in the sunset", which makes the dead scenery become a living thing, warm and pleasant; The second is that the clear pool water is suspected to be a "rainbow in the sky", but it has been crushed by floating algae and turned into a "rainbow-like dream". It is in "Crazy in Love" that poets, such as Zhuang Zhoumeng Butterfly, are interested in things and me, feel that "the beauty in the waves is rippling in their hearts" and are willing to be the water plants swaying in the gentle waves of He Kanghe. This good structure of the unity of subject and object is not only a wonderful hand, but also a painstaking effort; In verses 5 and 6, the poet opens up a new artistic conception. Borrowing the four refrain "Dream/Dream", "A boat full of starlight,/Singing in the starlight", "Singing,/But I can't sing" and "Summer insects are silent for me/silence is the Cambridge tonight", the whole poem is pushed to a climax, just like the He Kang River, full of twists and turns! And his madness of singing in greener grass and bright stars has not been realized. At this time, silence and silence are better than many love words! The last section has three "quietness" corresponding to the first cycle. Come smartly, go smartly. With a wave of his sleeve, what shook off? Needless to say. Why take away a cloud when you've been in Cambridge once? The whole poem is the best description of Xu Zhimo's "poetic life" in one go. Hu Shi once said: "His outlook on life is really a' simple belief', and there are only three big characters in it: one is love, the other is freedom, and the third is beauty. He dreams that these three ideal conditions can be met in his life, which is his' simple belief'. The history of his life is only the history of his pursuit of this simple belief. " (In memory of Xu Zhimo) If so, isn't the poet's wandering by the He Kang River a microcosm of this pursuit? Xu Zhimo advocates artistic poetry. He deeply admired Yiduo's poetic ideas of beauty in music, painting and architecture, especially in music. He even said, "... only when we understand that the life of poetry lies in its internal rhythm can we appreciate the true interest of poetry: no matter how noble your thoughts are and how passionate your emotions are, you must be completely" musicalized "(that is, poetic) to gain an understanding of poetry ..." (Poetry Publishing Holiday).
On the other hand, this poem "Biekangqiao": the whole poem consists of seven sections, four lines each, two meals each, eclectic, rigorous, rhyming strictly, two or four rhymes, cadence and catchy. This beautiful rhythm ripples like ripples, which is not only the voice of pious students seeking dreams, but also conforms to the ebb and flow of poets' emotions and has a unique aesthetic pleasure. The seven verses are strewn at random, and the rhythm spreads slowly in them, which is quite a poet's temperament of "white robe and thin suburban island". It can be said that it embodies Xu Zhimo's poetic beauty thought.
Appreciation 2:
Farewell to Cambridge is a lyric poem about scenery. What is it about? Summarized in three sentences: it is a feeling of nostalgia, farewell and sentimentality after disillusionment. It means subjective thoughts and feelings; Context is the objective scenery described in poetry. What is artistic conception? It is the perfect combination of subjective thoughts and feelings of characters and objective scenery, forming a unique artistic picture called artistic conception. Of course, we appreciate Xu Zhimo's poem just like other poems, and we need to mobilize our own life and knowledge accumulation, and then we will talk about this poem one after another.
If we analyze the poem "I left gently, just as I came gently, I waved goodbye to the clouds in the western sky", we can sum it up in a few words: slow rhythm, light movements, lingering affection, and a touch of sadness. Also, I would like to add that as a farewell to the clouds in the western sky, the rosy clouds in the western sky give us the impression that they have laid a gorgeous color for the later description, and the whole scenery is reflected by the sunset. So use this sentence to sum up and set the tone for this poem.
The golden willow by the river is the bride in the sunset, and the gorgeous shadow in the waves ripples in my heart. This poem really describes the beauty of He Kanghe. At the same time, the willow "Liu"-"Liu" in ancient poetry has the meaning of farewell, which left a deep impression on the poet, and how much care was expressed in the form of "rippling in my heart". Of course, his techniques are comparable (personification and imitation), combined with the third sentence: "The grass on the soft mud is oily and swaying at the bottom of the water; In the soft waves of Cambridge, I would like to be a water plant. " This poem highlights the quiet and free realm of Cambridge, and freedom and beauty are what Xu Zhimo pursues. At the same time, it shows a kind of love, and the water grass seems to welcome the arrival of the poet. Thirdly, I don't think it is completely divorced from the artistic conception of China's poems. And China's ancient poems have something in common, that is, the unity of things and me. The second sentence is to change the customer into the main, and the third sentence is to change the main to the customer, so that the two can be integrated and unforgettable. These two poems just illustrate the close relationship between Xu Zhimo and Cambridge. These are the three aspects we talked about earlier: determining the ideal, stepping into the world of poetry, and expressing our feelings in the wonderful scenery. The three are closely linked and express their feelings through concrete images. And we appreciate poetry from images and gradually accept the poet's mind. The fourth section is a turning point. "That pool under the shade of elm trees is not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky, shattered in impetuousness and precipitated a rainbow-like dream." This poem adopts the combination of reality and fiction. "Reality" is the description of scenery, and "emptiness" is the use of symbolic techniques. A pool of water is clear and the glow is reflected. "It's not a clear spring, it's a rainbow in the sky." It's a red light. It's real writing. However, there are many algae floating on the pool water, which block part of the glow and are fragmentary, some red and some green, like soft water, very vivid. This "kneading dough" is well written, and it is also the disillusionment of my dream. So how does this dream make us feel? This reminds me of a poem written by Mr. Wen Yiduo to commemorate the death of his eldest daughter. He used a metaphor "like a summer dream, like a clock in a dream". As we all know, dreams are beautiful, bells are melodious but short-lived, so rainbow-like dreams are beautiful and short-lived. 1927 His dream was shattered, and he was at odds with Lu Xiaoman, so he was depressed.
In the fifth section, since we talked about dreams, did you come to Cambridge and your alma mater this time to find your dreams? "Dream?" Support a long pole, slowly trace back to the greener grass, load a boat of starlight, and sing in the place where the starlight is gorgeous. "This poem is Xu Zhimo's memory and nostalgia for his past life. He lived in Cambridge at leisure for two years. At that time, he had his own ideals, lived a full life and was full of hope for tomorrow. So he used "a boat full of stars" to describe life at that time, which is symbolic.
The best poem is the third poem. The past has become history, and it is still a little sad to return to reality, so "silence is to leave other voices, and summer insects are silent for me." Silence is Cambridge tonight. " This poem is the climax of emotion, which fully shows Xu Zhimo's feelings for Cambridge and focuses on the sadness of parting. This poem needs to be understood in connection with other poems, including ancient poems. "Quiet is to leave other voices" is a metaphor. For example, the description in Su Shi's Poems on Qianchibi is sad and the flute is joyful, so Xiao is used as a metaphor to illustrate the poet's mood. Therefore, the action of "silence" has the feelings of a poet, and then "summer insects are silent for me, and silence is Cambridge tonight." Poetry pays attention to conciseness. Why do you repeat "silence", "quietness" and "gentleness" over and over again? This is not a waste of language, but precisely his point of view.
In fact, "silence" is the deepest feeling of people. For example, Liu Yong's poem "Rain Circle" says that "holding hands to see tears is speechless", and Su Shi's poem "Jiangchengzi" says that "ten years of life and death are boundless". He recalled that ten years after the death of his wife Wang Fu, when they met, they "looked after each other silently and shed only a thousand tears". "Silence here is better than sound", and Li Bai's "Yellow Crane Tower Farewell to Meng Haoran in Yangzhou": "An old friend said goodbye to the West Yellow Crane Tower, and fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March". By contrast, spring is bright and flowers are in full bloom in March. Unfortunately, my friend wants to leave me. For example, "Where the petals have shed tears, the lonely bird has mourned", and the next two sentences "The lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is exhausted, only the Yangtze River flows in the sky." Meaning between words and images. "Silent, very romantic" is often used to evaluate poetry, which means that poetry doesn't say sadness, but it shows sadness most appropriately. Watching friends leave, standing in isolation for a long time shows deep feelings. For example, Wang Guowei said that "all scenery words are sentimental words" and "writing scenery is lyrical". Therefore, "only looking at the Yangtze River flowing in the sky" can cause us a lot of reverie, for example, Li Yu's "how much sorrow can there be, just like a river flowing eastward". As long as it reminds us of poetry, it is a good poem, and tells us to mobilize our own knowledge accumulation to appreciate poetry, so that similar poems can be produced in our minds to understand new poems. Writing well is the refinement and sublimation of the poet's life experience. In other words, we can reach the poet's heart through the bridge of life. For example, do students who have just left their parents feel more comfortable reading Farewell to Cambridge? Why do you say "silent feelings are the deepest"? Just like an example in life, the deepest expression is that the plane and the boat are gone, but the farewell person stands still and thoughtfully. Combined with the sentence "Silence is Cambridge tonight", Cambridge is still the same. Why are poets worth it? In fact, it reflects the poet's deep feelings for Cambridge, so "quiet" carries the poet's subjective feelings.
The seventh sentence, "I left quietly, just as I came quietly, waving my sleeves and not taking away a cloud", I think "cloud" is symbolic, representing a rainbow-like dream, reflected in the water, but I can't take it away. Therefore, to bid farewell to Cambridge is not to bid farewell to his alma mater, but to bid farewell to Cambridge culture, which has brought the greatest change to his life. The above is a profound understanding of this poem.
Generally speaking, the poem Biekangqiao fully embodies the "three beauties" of the old and new poetic schools, namely, the beauty of painting, architecture and music. The beauty of music is what Xu Zhimo emphasizes most. The first sentence and the last sentence are repetitive, which strengthens the sense of rhythm, and the words overlap, such as "quiet", "gentle" and "silence". And every poem is rhymed, because the feelings have changed, so it is not a rhyme in the end. Then there is the tone scale, "I left softly", the three-character scale, the one-character scale and the two-character scale, which are in line with Xu Zhimo's lively and active character, and then rhyme. The so-called architectural beauty, one or three rows first, two or four rows second, empty strewn at random, the building has changed; In addition, one or three sentences are short and two or four sentences are long, showing visual beauty. Music is auditory, painting is visual, visual beauty and auditory beauty are integrated, and it will feel good to read. Let's talk about the beauty of painting as the beauty of words. Images such as "Golden Willow", "Soft Wave", "Xinghui", "Soft Mud" and "Qingrou" are rich in color, dynamic and feminine.
Combining the three, Xu Zhimo pursues "seeking change in the whole and seeking difference in the unevenness", showing crescent-like characteristics and personality, so I summarize it as: soft and melancholy artistic conception, fresh and elegant style.
Farewell to Cambridge is a beautiful lyric poem, just like an elegant and beautiful light music. 1In the autumn of 928, the author visited England again, revisiting his old place, which was full of poetry, and turned his life experience into a series of emotions, blending into the beautiful scenery of Cambridge and galloping in the poet's imagination.
The whole poem begins with "tenderness", "walking", "waving" and "parting from the clouds", and then uses the method of alternating reality and reality to describe a series of flowing pictures, which constitutes a wonderful artistic conception and shows in detail the poet's love for Cambridge, longing for his past life and helpless sadness at present.
This poem shows the poet's superb artistic skills. The poet combines specific scenery with imagination to form a vivid artistic image of poetry, and skillfully blends atmosphere, feelings and scenes into the artistic conception to achieve the feelings and scenes in the scene. The structure of the poem is rigorous and neat. The whole poem consists of 7 sections, each with 4 lines, forming two parallel steps; 1 and 3 lines are slightly shorter, and 2 and 4 lines are slightly longer, ranging from 6 to 8 words per line. It seems that the poet intends to combine the forms of metrical poetry and free verse, making it a new form of poetry, full of nationalization and modern architectural beauty. The language of the poem is fresh and beautiful, the rhythm is gentle and euphemistic, harmonious and natural. With the ups and downs of emotions, it is like a melodious board, light and tactfully, touching the readers' heartstrings.
In the 1920s, the poet Wen Yiduo advocated the beauty of music, painting and architecture in modern poetry. Farewell to Cambridge can be said to have three beauties, and it is the swan song in Xu Zhimo's poems. Appreciation 3:
1In the autumn of 920, Xu Zhimo arrived in England. I went there to learn from Russell of Cambridge University. But I didn't know Russell was no longer in England until I arrived in England, but went to China to give lectures. Moreover, Russell opposed World War I and was expelled from Cambridge University. Later, Xu Zhimo was introduced by Dickinson, a British writer, before he was able to study at Cambridge University. During this period, Xu Zhimo met the Justice of Beiyang Government and his daughter Lin, and began to pursue this beautiful young talented woman. Therefore, Xu Zhimo dissolved his marriage with his ex-wife Zhang Youyi. Unfortunately, Lin later married Liang Sicheng, the son of Liang Qichao.
Therefore, a poem Farewell to Cambridge fully shows Xu Zhimo's passionate, sincere, gentle, delicate and slightly elegant romantic personality, which left a deep impression on future generations:
I left quietly, just as I came gently; I waved my hand gently and bid farewell to the clouds in the western sky. The golden willow by the river is the bride in the sunset; Beautiful shadows in the waves ripple in my heart. Green grass on the soft mud, oily, swaying at the bottom of the water; In the gentle waves of He Kanghe, I would like to be an aquatic plant! The pool under the shade of elm trees is not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky. Crushed in floating seaweed, a rainbow-like dream is precipitated. Looking for dreams? Support a long pole and swim back to a greener place on the grass; Full of starlight, singing in the splendor of starlight. But I can't play the piano, just a farewell flute; Summer insects have been silent for me, silence is Cambridge tonight; I left quietly, just as I came quietly; I waved my sleeve without taking away a cloud.
This is how Xu Zhimo perceives love with mimosa-like touch and baby-like emotion. It is his simple view of love that infuses romance into his poems. Although this romance can't come true, Xu Zhimo's passionate and delicate feelings flow quietly with He Kang in his poems.
As the first artistic feature of Xu Zhimo's poems, it is the painstaking management and some deliberate pursuit of poetic images. He is really good at capturing images in life, discovering poetry in life, and integrating images and poetry in his works, thus forming a higher aesthetic realm. For example, the imagery in the poem, such as Farewell to Cambridge, has clouds, golden willows, erotic shadows, green grass, rainbows, dreams, wormwood, starlight, flutes, summer insects and health. Through emotionalization, the objective images are endowed with emotional color, which makes them from plain to strange, so the whole poem is more elegant and flexible. So Farewell to Cambridge became a famous poem written by Xu Zhimo from the depths of his soul.
Look at the poem "Golden Willow by the River" and "Beautiful Shadow in the Waves", which not only ripples in his mind, but also has a fantastic power, which urges him to fly in the sky and fantasize about "carrying a boat and shining". The formation of a series of images shows that Xu Zhimo accepted the influence of English romantic poetry and absorbed the characteristics of European symbolism and impressionism. In addition, "Farewell to Cambridge" has four lines in each section, strictly observing the rhyme of 24, and each line has two or three meals. The whole poem is even and rhymes sonorous, but in order to express feelings more appropriately, it is not limited to "the uniformity of sentences" "A dream? Holding a long pole is like a ripple on a calm lake, which makes the whole poem full of life. "The rhythm of the whole poem conforms to the ups and downs of the poet's mood. The whole poem is cadence, catchy, and lingering after reading, giving people a unique aesthetic pleasure. This also shows that on the one hand, Xu Zhimo absorbed the charm and temperament of English romantic poets, and at the same time, according to the characteristics of China vernacular, his poems gradually developed into the embryonic form of a new poem.
The artistic achievements of Xu Zhimo's poems are manifested in three aspects: spirit, image and rhythm. It can also be said that his poems have these three characteristics in art, and in fact, these three aspects are inseparable in his poems: spirituality needs to be reflected to a large extent through images, and images need to be completed through important aspects of musical beauty. They * * * isomorphically became the whole of Xu Zhimo's poetic art, which not only made his poems enjoy a high artistic status, but also brought some artistic experiences with universal significance to the development of China's new poetry and made contributions that other poets failed to make!