Poetry is fresh, harmonious in rhythm, novel in metaphor, rich in imagination, beautiful in artistic conception, elegant in thinking, rich in change, pursuing orderly and gorgeous art forms, and has a distinctive artistic personality. He is a representative poet of the Crescent School.
His prose is also sui generis, and has achieved no less achievements than poetry. Among them, Self-Anatomy, Want to Fly, Cambridge as I Know It and Chatting in Yushan Residence are all masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.
Generally speaking, the capacity of reflecting life is not large, the exploration of content is not deep enough, and the thoughts and feelings are not all so positive and healthy. However, judging from its performance skills, "almost all of them are systematic inputs and experiments" (Chen Xiying: Ten Works Since the New Literature Movement).
Xu Zhimo's poems have their own characteristics, including successes, shortcomings and failures.
Regardless of the content, as far as the form of expression is concerned, there is a strong foreign flavor and insufficient nationalization, and some poems appear rough and artificial.
There are also some irregularities in rhyme, and the skills of poetry are not very mature.