"I don't know which direction the wind is blowing" was written in March 1928. It can be said that it more prominently expresses the poet's hesitation, depression and confusion at that time.
The poem "I don't know which direction the wind is blowing" can be said to be Xu Zhimo's "label" work. After the poem came out, as long as the literary world heard this recitation, they would know that the prince had arrived. There are four stanzas in the whole poem, and the first three sentences of each stanza are the same, repeated over and over again, with lingering sounds. This deliberately planned melody combination exaggerates the "dream" atmosphere in the poem and also adds a bit of a "dream" state to the singer.
Xu Zhimo (January 15, 1897 - November 19, 1931), formerly named Zhang_, courtesy name_Sen, was born in Xia Shi, Haining, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, a modern poet, essayist, and a representative of the Crescent School. poet.
In 1921, he went to study in England and became a special student at Cambridge University, studying political economics. During his two years in Cambridge, he was deeply influenced by Western education and European and American romantic and aesthetic poets, which established his romantic poetry style. Crescent Society was established in 1923. Died in a plane crash on November 19, 1931.