1920 Xu Zhimo traveled across the ocean to study literature from the United States to Britain. At Cambridge University in London, as a special student, he took classes at will and spent more than a year in real leisure.
According to his later recollection, it was the happiest day of his life. On the beautiful He Kang River, he lies on his back on the green lawn dotted with stars and yellow flowers, or reads books or looks at the clouds in the sky. Sometimes go boating in the blue waves of Hekang River. He was completely intoxicated with the embrace of nature. On the eve of leaving London, he wandered in Cambridge on a beautiful evening, lingering and writing this poem.
Farewell to Cambridge is a famous work by Xu Zhimo, a modern poet, and also a masterpiece of crescent poetry. The whole poem takes the emotional ups and downs when leaving Cambridge as a clue to express the deep affection for Cambridge's departure. The language is light and soft, and the form is exquisite and mellow. The poet paints a flowing picture by alternating reality and reality, which constitutes a wonderful artistic conception everywhere. It shows in detail the poet's love for Cambridge, his longing for his past life, and his helpless sadness at present, which is the swan song in Xu Zhimo's poems.
Creation background: This poem was written on 1928, 165438 on June 6, and was first published in New Moon Monthly 1928, 10, and signed by Xu Zhimo. 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 river in He Kang that opened the poet's heart and awakened the poet's long-term 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)
The poet revisited his old haunt. 165438+1On October 6th, he wrote this masterpiece handed down from ancient times on his way home from Nanhai, China. This poem was first published in February 18, 928 in New Moon 1 VolumeNo. 10, and later included in Tiger Collection. It can be said that "Cambridge plot" runs through Xu Zhimo's poems all his life, and Farewell to Cambridge is undoubtedly the most famous one.
This poem was written by Xu Zhimo on his way home after his third trip to Europe. The time is1928165438+10. The place is China. One summer at the end of July, after staying at the home of the British philosopher Russell for one night, a man quietly came to Cambridge to find his English friend without any notice in advance.
Unfortunately, none of his English friends are here, only Cambridge, which he is familiar with, is waiting for him silently. The scene of his past life reappeared before his eyes ... because he was in a hurry to meet another English friend, he didn't record this emotional activity. It was not until he left Marseille by boat on his way home, facing the rough sea and the vast sky, that he unfolded the paper and wrote down his personal feelings about returning to Cambridge this time.
References:
Farewell to Cambridge (Poems by Xu Zhimo)-Baidu Encyclopedia