Xu Zhimo (1897 ~ 193 1), a modern poet and essayist, was born in Shixia, Haining, Zhejiang. 192 1 year began to write new poems, including Poems of Zhimo, A Cold Night in the Green, Tiger Collection, Journey in the Clouds, Essays of Fallen Leaves, Scales of Paris, Autopsy, Autumn, Roulette Novels and Essays, etc. 193 1 year 1 year 1 year 65438+9 years, I flew from Nanjing to Beiping, because of the fog, I hit a mountain near Jinan, and the plane crashed and died.
Although Xu Zhimo's life is short, his life has been stubbornly obsessed with the pursuit of "love, freedom and beauty"-in reality and in dreams. Xu Zhimo was born in a feudal comprador wealthy family, but influenced by the western bourgeois liberal democratic thought and the spirit of the May 4th Movement, he became an anti-feudal bourgeois intellectual and pursued an ideal of "love, freedom and beauty". His ideals were not only difficult to blossom and bear fruit in the real society at that time, but also often suppressed and destroyed. "Idealism" hit a wall, which made Xu Zhimo dissatisfied and rebelled against the dark real environment. At the same time, he also pinned his ideal on a fantasy world. He once wrote in the article "Self-anatomy": "The greatest personal tragedy is to imagine an empty realm to deceive yourself: when you can't cheat to the end, you have to endure the great pain of' disillusionment'." Although the poet often feels the pain of disillusionment, in the beautiful dreamland, the poet can undoubtedly find a spiritual world opposite to the real world, so that his damaged soul can be comforted and rested. Moreover, for a poet with romantic temperament and passion, he can often find the source of inspiration in the fantasy ideal world and let the wings of his imagination fly freely.
Xu Zhimo's poems, such as Farewell to Cambridge, Accidental, A Japanese Girl's Song by ANNA, etc., are tactfully gentle and full of emotion. We appreciate the poem Farewell to Cambridge, and appreciate the unique charm of the poem from its low twists and turns, singing and sighing, and at the same time feel more about the poet's beautiful ideal and surging passion.