Green grass on soft mud

Green grass on the soft mud, oily, swaying at the bottom of the water; In the gentle waves of Cambridge, I would like to be a water plant!

From Xu Zhimo's Farewell to Cambridge.

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Farewell to Cambridge is a famous work by Xu Zhimo, and it is also the representative work of crescent poetry. 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 paints a flowing picture by alternating reality and reality, which constitutes a wonderful artistic conception everywhere.

It is the swan song of Xu Zhimo's poetry, which shows in detail the poet's love for Cambridge, his yearning for the past life and his helpless sadness of parting.

The artistic achievements of Xu Zhimo's poems are manifested in three aspects: spirit, image and rhythm. It can also be said that his poems have these three characteristics in art, and in fact, these three aspects are inseparable in his poems: spirituality needs to be reflected to a large extent through images, and images need to be completed through important aspects of musical beauty. They * * * isomorphically became the whole of Xu Zhimo's poetic art, which not only made his poems enjoy a high artistic status, but also brought some artistic experiences of universal significance to the development of China's new poetry and made contributions that other poets failed to make.