From the establishment of crescent society to the formation of crescent school and its main activities (especially literary activities), Xu Zhimo played a leading role in it. He is indeed a representative of the crescent school, which has played a certain role in promoting and influencing the development of new poetry. However, they excessively pursue form and meter and go astray. In particular, there was a crisis in Xu Zhimo's later thought and creation. He lamented: "Year after year, the new moon looks round and the circle looks incomplete." (Revelation of Love)
Xu Zhimo was an influential writer who was once active in China's literary world. His world outlook has no dominant ideology, or he is a "non-partisan poet" who transcends class. His thoughts, the appearance of his creation and his development trend all show that he is a bourgeois poet and a bourgeois writer. The development and changes of his thoughts and the different situations before and after his creation are related to the social and historical characteristics at that time. As the main poet of the Crescent School, Xu Zhimo has a certain influence on the development history of China's new poetry, and has made various experiments and explorations for the development of new poetry. His poetry has a distinctive and unique style and certain artistic skills. As a person of that era, Xu Zhimo did everything that an ordinary intellectual could do. While pursuing his happy life, he also thought deeply about the fate of the country. His marriage with Zhang Youyi was the misfortune of that era. His marriage with Lu Xiaoman was mixed with too much material utility, and the faint affection between him and Lin was the most embarrassing.