Author: Xu Zhimo

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!

That pool under the shade of elm 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 are also silent for me, silence is Cambridge tonight!

I left quietly, just as I came quietly; I waved my sleeve without taking away a cloud.

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Xu Zhimo (1897 65438+1October 193165438+1October19) is a modern poet and prose. Formerly known as Zhang Yi, it was renamed Zhimo when studying in the UK. The representative poet of crescent school. He studied in Shanghai Hujiang University, Tianjin Beiyang University and Peking University successively.

Creation background

Cambridge, the seat of the famous Cambridge University in Britain. 1June 920 to1October 1922, the poet studied here.

The Cambridge period was a turning point in Xu Zhimo's life. The poet once came from director Chen in the preface to the tiger: before the age of 24, his interest in poetry was far less than that in relativity or civil contract theory.

It was the He Kang River that opened the poet's soul and awakened his long-dormant fate. So he later said with deep affection, "Cambridge taught me to broaden my horizons. My thirst for knowledge was aroused by Cambridge, and my self-awareness was given to me by Cambridge." (Smoking and Culture)

1928, the poet revisited his old place. 1On October 6th, he wrote this masterpiece on his way home from Nanhai.

This poem was first published in1February, 928, New Moon Monthly, Volume 10, and later included in Tiger Collection. It can be said that "Cambridge complex" runs through Xu Zhimo's poems all his life. Farewell to Cambridge is undoubtedly the most famous one.

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Section 1 is about thousands of parting worries when long-lost classmates 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."

Verses 2 to 4 describe the poet rowing on the He Kang River in search of his dream.

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.

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. Since I once lived in Cambridge, why should I take a cloud with me? The whole poem is the best description of Xu Zhimo's "poetic life" in one go.

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