Source: Farewell to Cambridge by modern poet Xu Zhimo.
Excerpt from the original:
Green grass on the soft mud, oily, swaying at the bottom of the water; In the gentle waves of He Kanghe, I would like to be an aquatic plant!
That pool under the shade of elm is not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky; Crushed in floating seaweed, a rainbow-like dream is precipitated.
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 painted a flowing picture by alternating reality with reality.
Everywhere constitutes a wonderful artistic conception, which shows in detail the poet's love for Cambridge, his longing for the past life and his helpless sadness at present, which is the swan song in Xu Zhimo's poems.
Creative background: This poem was written by Xu Zhimo on his way home from his third European tour. 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.
About the author: Xu Zhimo (1897 65438+ 10/5-193165438+10/9) is a modern poet. Formerly known as Zhang Yi, it was renamed Zhimo when studying in the UK. The representative poet of crescent school.
He studied in Shanghai Hujiang University, Tianjin Beiyang University and Peking University successively. 19 18 went to the United States to study economics, 192 1 went to the United Kingdom to study, and became a special student at Cambridge University, studying political economy. During my two years in Cambridge, I was deeply influenced by western education and romantic and aesthetic poets in Europe and America.