"You don't have to remind me what day it is today, tell me about the famine here and there, and tell me that there are more existing and hidden accidents. You don't have to tell me that there are tens of millions of people immersed in water today, or tens of millions of people in Qian Qian are crying for help in extreme hunger, not to mention that my thoughts are outdated or my rhyme is based on an outdated ideology ... "(6) Of course, poets also have many unique qualities. In addition to various main themes between old and new cultures, class contradictions and party struggles, there is also a specific personality in his personal experience. Studying in the United States and Britain, he studied economics first, then philosophy, and finally decided on literature. Western liberalism and romanticism make his poems have the flavor of western bread and butter, with a strong exotic atmosphere. He advocates the liberation of personality, pursues the freedom of love, and takes expressing one's mind as the main value of Xu's poems. In particular, his understanding and experience of love is also a great adventure, so Hu Shi, Yu Dafu and others have similar descriptions in recalling Xu Zhimo's words. "He is a fire, a gust of wind and a poem." (7) This can be perceived as "the water of life that never leaves day and night" from Xu Zhimo's love letters. (8) "I have no other way, I have love; No other genius is love; There is nothing but love. I will visit my only soul mate in the vast sea of people, and I am lucky to get it; No, my life, nothing more. " "Martyrs martyrdom, priests martyrdom, lovers favoritism, in the final analysis, all have the same meaning, the same frankness and the same heroism." "Love makes people become people, and you know how to love, so it is your opportunity to be an adult" (9) This oath of love makes me feel that Xu Zhimo's heart is full of elements of "love, beauty and freedom", burning with a fiery and spontaneous flame, and then reflecting on his marriage road and the calendar of pursuing love, it can be said that Xu Zhimo is a fantastic and chic romantic literati, with the free breath of western romantic talents and a blend of eastern sages. As Mr. Hu Shi said: "His pursuit makes us ashamed, because our confidence is too small, we never dare to dream of his dream-in the vast world, only he has confidence, took great risks, spent countless troubles, sacrificed all ordinary comfort, sacrificed family friendship and human reputation, and pursued to test a' sacred realm of dreams'
..... "(10) It is not difficult to see that the word" modern poetic immortal "is not based on the achievements of poetry, but mostly on his life experience and personal temperament. It can also be said that the extraordinary belief in life and the bumpy and changeable life course have added a lot of color to the reputation of Shixian. So what is the specific expression of the literary style as a "modern poet"?
1, strong personal color and romantic elements. Xu Zhimo's poetry has a strong personal color, which is often a surge of personal color: "Once, my poetry was really like a flash flood, regardless of direction. That is, in the first half of my poetry writing, my life was shocked by great power, and any half-mature and immature ideas were scattered into colorful showers. Although the initial surge of "Zhimo poems" has decreased, most of them are still emotionally irrelevant-I-however, the decline of my nature has not allowed me to follow one or more. They have made meticulous efforts in poetry theory. Green all night. "
It can be said that it is another big pass of twists and turns in my life ... "(1 1) From Xu Zhimo's preface poems, it can be clearly perceived that his first collection of poems is" The Overflow of Emotion "and his second collection is
Traces of another great turning point in life; His third book of poetry is The Soul Is Still Struggling There, which is "Some Voices Revealed under Heavy Pressure" (12). The poems in it are all personal expressions of "leaving marks" in life, overflowing with emotions, romantic and personal, such as "I don't know where the wind blows" and "Farewell to Cambridge".