Like a hibiscus out of water,
Be overwhelmed by the cool breeze.
Watch out, watch out, watch out.
Sweet sadness-Annola!
-Xu Zhimo's "Sianna La-For Japanese Girls"
If there is really infatuation in the world, it must be Xu Zhimo. Many of his poems are still synonymous with romance, such as Farewell to Cambridge, Nora in Peace, Joy of Snowflakes, Accidental and so on. It is well known and eternal.
Xu Zhimo is an outstanding contemporary writer and an absolutely beautiful essayist. His poems make people think, such as flowing clouds and walking in Penglai, which makes people have endless reverie. However, his prose is characterized by a wide range of subjects, bold and unrestrained expression, cordial attitude, straightforward expression, sincere feelings, rich and complex words and poetic prose.
Xu Zhimo's poetry creation opened its unique "Zhimo era". As a literati, Xu Zhimo's prose has also been recognized by the world. Even many people, such as Liang Shiqiu and Yu Dafu, think that his prose is more chewy than his poems.
Let's take a look at the arbitrariness and true feelings unique to Xu Zhimo's prose.
1 colorful and numerous characters
Xu Zhimo is a gifted scholar, not at all false. He integrated his extensive, rich, agile and natural association into his works, but it seemed so seamless.
In his unrestrained writing and expression, Xu Zhimo's ability to control words has been like a duck to water. Western culture and great China feelings wandered in his mind, so he expressed these beautiful wishes one by one in his works.
Excerpts from China
To realize our pure personality, we must not just be eccentric in appearance-this is depravity, not personality-but pure personality is a state in which the power of mind can control and reconcile body, reason, emotion and spirit, and various functions that lead to personality will naturally appear later.
It is as sensitive as a spectroscope without being hindered by internal foreign bodies. Whether it is mud and sand underground or stars thousands of miles away, as long as the light path is aligned, the characteristics of other light waves can be distinguished; An experience is an invention because it is a new combination and a new change.
With such an inner life, it can certainly go beyond man-made regulations and respond to deeper but more realistic natural laws, realize a special quality and style, and make his special contribution to prove his value in this natural system.
(The picture shows Lin, Tagore and Xu Zhimo)
Understand the meaning of doing your best in everything, and then look at things in the universe. There is really nothing not beautiful. Needless to say, poisonous insects, such as scorpions and ants, are all beautiful.
Only those who have the deepest expectations for nature are the most disappointing, because ordinary people are self-destructive, not only failing to do their best, but always destroying the essence that could have been beautiful.
Shame on you, man! A topic that can be done well is written as a cliche that you know nothing about; Good paintings, good canvases, and good colors have all been painted by you as ugly paintings;
Good carving knives and granite, but you turned them into ridiculous bad monsters! Good spirituality can transcend material and cosmic spirit and transform into eternal life, but you have ruined and desecrated it into ugly, vulgar, despicable and filthy waste!
2 sincere and friendly attitude
Although his language and expression are wanton and arrogant, there is a distinctive feature in his poems, that is, his friendly attitude towards prose.
As Chen Zishan, the teacher who edited Want to Fly, said, Zhimo picked up the pen without reservation, took out what was in his heart and regarded the reader as the closest person.
Excerpt from Want to Fly
No one doesn't want to fly. I'm tired of always crawling on this floor, that's all. Get out of this circle! Get out of this circle! Go to the clouds, go to the clouds! What heart doesn't think so a thousand times all day?
Fly to the sky to float, watch the earth roll in space, see the sea from the land, and look back at the land from the sea. See clearly in the air-this is the interest, authority and explanation of being a man. If the bag is too heavy to carry, throw it away. If possible, fly out of this circle, fly out of this circle!
When man first invented stone tools, he wanted to grow wings. Want to fly. Four portraits painted on the cave walls of primitive people have wings on their backs; He who drives wild animals with bows and arrows has wings on his shoulders. Little love god has a pair of pink wings.
(The picture shows the former residence of Xu Zhimo)
Icarus is the first hero in the history of human flight and his first sacrifice. Angels (an idealized person) are marked with wings to help them fly. There is also an evolution-look at the performance in western painting.
At first, it was like a pair of delicate flags, sticking to the angel's back like a butterfly, which seemed real and not smart. Gradually, the wings grow up, the position is fixed, and the feathers are full. The angel in the picture really has wings. For the first time, human beings realized the concept of wings and understood the meaning of flight.
Get rid of the immortal soul of Lars and come back to be reborn. The greatest mission of mankind is to make wings; The greatest success is flying! The ultimate ideal, endless imagination, from man to god! Poetry is born on the wing; Philosophy hovers in the air. Flying: Above everything, covering everything, sweeping everything, breathing everything.
3? Poetry and prose
The most striking feature of Xu Zhimo's prose is poetic prose. In his prose works, it is difficult to strictly distinguish between many essays and poems.
He combined poetry with prose, which not only produced the profound artistic conception of poetry, but also had the leisure spirit of prose. Therefore, this is "another poem of his own prose".
From Qiu Si in the Indian Ocean.
It is autumn again! The sound of rain, which is in a hurry and has a sparse smell, is attached to a gloomy atmosphere, but whispers in my soul's ear: "Autumn"!
There is no joy in my heart, and I can't resist the gentle infiltration. I opened the Qiu Si accumulated in spring and summer, and combined with the foreign resentment at this time, I produced a weak baby-"sorrow".
It's already dark and the rain has stopped. However, the sobbing clouds are still hanging loosely in the sky, showing only a little pale light, which indicates that the bright moon is fully dressed and waiting to open.
(The picture shows Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman)
At the same time, the smoke on the ship is being swallowed up in the vast wilderness, and a long bridge is built with the scales of pythons, which goes straight to the end of the western world, setting each other off with the first-class Cui Bo foam radiated from the ship and cherishing the traces of the west.
When the cloud curtain in the northern sky opened, a bright green star, like a newly-married maid-in-waiting, was all dressed up. But the bride still lingers.
When I was a child, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, I would sit outside the basement window and wait to watch Yuet Wah. If there are clouds in the sky, I will worry about the "sparkling moon". If I see a fish scale cloud, I will take care of it happily and silently pray for the moon to blossom as soon as possible.
Because it is often said that as long as there are "corrugated" clouds, there will be moonlight; But before the moonlight shone, my mother had forced me to sleep, so the moonlight was only an unrealized imagination in my mind until now.
Now the sky is full of wavy clouds, which reminds me of many interesting memories in my early years-but where is my innocent childlike innocence now!
After reading these, we can find that Xu Zhimo's prose is more mature and enlightened in concept than his poetry.
The expression of emotion is even more unrestrained; The ability to manipulate words is more free and easy, wild and uninhibited.
When he is soft, he can be softer than the euphemism and affection of Huajian words; When I first arrived here, I was as fierce as the roar of splitting Huashan Mountain. When he was young, it was like holding a candle and talking at midnight; When he is heavy, he is as heavy as a drum.
At the end of his pen, what flowed out was the words in his heart, so there was less affectation and stumbling, and more frankness and courage all the way.
When you open Xu Zhimo's Selected Prose: A Leaf of Poetry and read it with your heart, you will be deeply patronized by Xu Zhimo's true feelings beyond skills before you know it.
Recommended reading
Selected Prose of Xu Zhimo: A Leaf of Poetry
Content introduction:
This collection of essays contains dozens of representative essays by Xu Zhimo according to five themes: poetry class, gossip in Cuishan Villa, self-analysis, miscellaneous notes and remembering people. These essays reflect Xu Zhimo's poetic concept, life perception and self-understanding.
Zhimo's poems are undoubtedly the most romantic, and his prose, between the lines, can often appreciate the charm of his poems. Not only the language is poetic, but also the poetry and poetry expressed in the article are not available to other authors. In Xu Zhimo's prose, it is difficult to see any of his tendencies. He often conquers every reader with pure beauty and true feelings without impurities.
About the author:
Formerly known as Zhang Yi, he was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Poet and essayist. Xu Zhimo is a representative of Crescent School and one of the founders of Crescent Poetry Society. Xu Zhimo's family is relatively rich, and the good economic conditions of the family have a great influence on Xu Zhimo's study and personality, which leads to the rare romantic feelings in Xu Zhimo's poems in this period. Representative works include Farewell to Cambridge and Cold Jade Night.
Xu Zhimo's family has also produced many literary masters. Jin Yong and Qiong Yao, famous contemporary novelists, are cousins of Xu Zhimo. Later, Xu Zhimo had to travel back and forth between the two places for work reasons, flying around Beijing all the year round, and was killed in a plane crash on193119.
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