1. This is written in memory of Xu Zhimo.
2. It was made for the birth of a son to express the hope for his son and the joy brought by his birth.
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The influence of the work:
Lin has contributed to the development of new poetry style since "You are April Day on Earth". As an architect, Lin combines architectural art with poetry creation, and her poems fully reflect the artistic characteristics of architectural beauty. The exquisiteness of women in poetry and the proficiency of language have also become the style of Lin's poetry. The architectural beauty in poetry is an important embodiment of its poetic form, but there is no architectural beauty in traditional metrical poetry. As Mr. Liang Congjie said: "In the garden of China's vernacular poems, we have taken a road that no one else has taken."
"You are April Day on Earth" fully embodies the inheritance and development of traditional metrical poetry from the aspects of sentence pattern, rhythm and rhyme. This is not only influenced by crescent poetry, but also beyond crescent poetry. Its forms are diverse and harmonious. With You Are the April Day on Earth as the representative, the poet's aesthetic concepts such as architectural beauty, musical beauty and painting beauty have been vividly expressed in the process of poetry creation, which is of unique significance to the development of China's new poetry. After the 1980s, there appeared some poems that emphasized the architectural beauty such as steps, symmetry and pattern, reaching a height that later generations could not surpass.
References:
You are April Day on Earth-Baidu Encyclopedia