The poem "Farewell Cambridge" fully embodies the "three beauties" of the Crescent Poetry School, namely, the beauty of painting, the beauty of architecture, and the beauty of music.
The beauty of music is what Xu Zhimo emphasizes most. The first and last sentences are repeated to enhance the sense of rhythm, and the words in them are overlapping, such as "quietly", "gently", " "Silence", and each line of the poem changes rhyme, because the feelings change, so it is not the same rhyme to the end. Then there is the sound ruler, "Gently I leave", three-character ruler, one-character ruler, two-character ruler, which is in line with Xu Zhimo's lively and active character, and then the rhyme.
The so-called architectural beauty means that the first and third lines of poems are arranged in front, and the second and fourth lines of poems are arranged in low grids. The empty grids are well-proportioned, and the architecture has changes; furthermore, the first and third lines are shorter, and the second and fourth lines are shorter. Make it longer and show visual beauty. Music is auditory and painting is visual. Only when visual beauty and auditory beauty are integrated will it feel good when you read it.
When it comes to the beauty of painting, it is also the beauty of words. Images such as "golden willow", "soft wave", "star glow", "soft mud" and "green water" are colorful and dynamic. and softness.
Combining these three, Xu Zhimo pursues "seeking changes in the whole and seeking differences in the differences", showing the characteristics and personality of the new moon, which can be summarized as: soft and resentful artistic conception, fresh and elegant style .
This poem shows the poet's high artistic skills. The poet combines specific scenery and imagination to form a vivid and vivid artistic image of the poem, and skillfully integrates the atmosphere, emotions and scenes into the artistic conception, so that there is emotion in the scenery and scenery in the emotion.
The structure of the poem is rigorous, neat and well-proportioned. The whole poem has 7 stanzas, each stanza has 4 lines, forming two parallel steps; lines 1 and 3 are slightly shorter, lines 2 and 4 are slightly longer, with each line ranging from 6 to 8 words. The poet seems to intentionally combine metrical poetry and free verse. The forms are combined to make it a new poetry form, rich in nationalization and modern architectural beauty. The language of the poem is fresh and beautiful, the rhythm is gentle and euphemistic, harmonious and natural, and it rises and falls with emotions, just like a sweet and slow rhyme, which is light and graceful and touches the readers' heartstrings.
The poet Wen Yiduo advocated the "beauty of music", "the beauty of painting" and "the beauty of architecture" in modern poetry in the 1920s. The poem "Farewell to Cambridge" can be said to be the "three beauties" "With it, it can be called the swan song in Xu Zhimo's poetry.