Saying goodbye to Cambridge makes people feel beautiful, and the beauty lies in:
First, the beauty of music: full of rhythm, the melody echoes.
The beauty of phonology: brisk rhythm, soft rhythm, cadence and catchy.
The first three sentences of the first section adopt repetitive rhetorical devices, and through the continuous use of the adverbial of "light", it lays a musical effect similar to repeated singing for the opening of the poem, while the two words of "static" in the last section also have the same effect. The first letters of "light" and "sadness", such as pronunciation, echo from beginning to end, which, from the content point of view, highlights the gentleness of farewell movements and is good for health. This is why the first two sections are impressive.
Let's take a look at the musical features of the whole poem. In section 12367, even-numbered sentences have the same rhyme, and the rhyme of the poem has both internal unity and overall connection. At the same time, there are also differences between the sections. Reading can make people feel happy and beautiful music, without noticing deliberate rhyming stress, and hiding superb poetic skills in silence, which really confirms what Wen Yiduo said: "The more enterprising a writer is, the more he has to dance with shackles."
Farewell to Cambridge is the best practice of musical beauty in Wen Yiduo's theory of three beauties of poetry.
Second, the beauty of painting: bright colors and flowing pictures.
The language of poetry mostly uses colorful words: clouds, golden willows, sunset, waves, beautiful shadows, green flowers, rainbows, grasses and magnificence.
Using verbs skillfully, the flowing picture is beautiful: waving, rippling, swaying, crushing, swimming back and waving.
The painting beauty of Farewell to Cambridge is mainly reflected in the second to fifth sections, in which the image features change from gentle and charming to Leng Yan's bright and beautiful, the perspective changes from the riverside to the bottom of the water, and then the heaven and the earth become one, and the lyrical features change from implicit lingering to indulgence. It can be said that these four paragraphs are the essence of this poem.
The "willow" appearing in the second section is the first important image, and we are easily captured by this first image and fall into a lingering state of mind in the lingering beauty of willow branches. Xu Zhimo compared the willow to the bride, which gave her graceful willow more delicate and feminine at once. Under the golden light of the setting sun, the willow posture and the reflection in the waves complement each other, just like the bride in front of the toilet mirror. This dazzling scene, like the first picture in memory, is intoxicating In addition, the metaphor of "bride" is worth pondering. If it is to show femininity, can't it be compared to "beauty"? Why the bride? There is a stronger love. The poet's deep affection for Cambridge University can only be compared with the groom's love for the bride.
The second scene, deliberately highlighting the oily water plants, stretching, not amazing, just happy. Modifiers such as "on soft mud", "oily" and "soft wave" increase the softness of underwater green grass. Free floating aquatic plants not only make people feel comfortable and happy in visual effect, but also make people easily understand that the poet is in his alma mater, just like a child in his mother's arms, so "green grass"
The fourth and fifth verses of the poem can be combined into a scene, in which the poet walks with a long pole in the pool under the shade of elm trees, from the sunset with colorful clouds on the horizon to the starry night. That pool of water is a rainbow, reflecting the colorful starlight all over the sky. People seem to be walking in jade pearls, and the crystal light shines in the sky and underground, which is even more dreamlike. These two poems have the most beautiful visual effects and are the most lyrical. At first, the poet waved gently, but he couldn't help singing loudly.
Third, the beauty of architecture: the lines of poetry have changed, but they are relatively neat.
Symmetrical sections, neat sentences: four lines and one section, randomly arranged, with similar words and circular echoes. The poem consists of seven sections with four lines and four sentences. The number of words is in the form of 6767, 6767, 7878, 7868, 7868, 6878, 6767, showing a circular pattern and hiding fluctuations. In addition, the poet indents the even sentences in each section into one box, forming a rugged layout, which is visually pleasing to the eye and will also form a natural momentum when reading. The lines of the poem are arranged in pairs, which are neat in the uneven changes and give people the aesthetic feeling of architecture.