Based on the works, let’s discuss the main artistic features of Xu Zhimo’s poems:
1. Exquisite conception and novel imagery. For example, "The Joy of Snowflakes" is a poem that is full of the poet's spiritual and artistic characteristics. It is a poem from a "warm place of spirituality" and can quite reflect the style of Xu Zhimo's poetry. It is a poem that expresses the strong and sincere desire of love and reflects the poet's requirement for personality liberation. Use snowflakes as metaphors to pursue true love and beautiful ideals.
2. The rhythm is harmonious and full of musical beauty. The secret of poetry lies in the evenness and flow of its syllables. Syllables are the "blood" of poetry. For example, "Farewell to Cambridge" uses techniques such as overlapping, repetition, parallelism, and duality. It is lingering and has a light rhythm, and the sense of rhythm adds to the beauty of the melody.
3. "Inspiration of Love" is organized, flexible and diverse. The poet pays attention to the form and composition of the poem, most of which are four lines and one verse. The stanza pattern, composition, syntax, and rhyme have their own changes. They are not too rigid, and there are changes in the organization, showing flexible and diverse styles.
4. The words are gorgeous and the style is bright. Poetry is full of imagination, and it is naturally easy to express it in the richness of words, the gorgeousness and richness of words. For example, "Pipa in the Alley at Midnight" is charming and bright, and has high aesthetic value.
5. The description of the Japanese girl in "Sayanara" is very vivid, pure and flawless, and charming. The artistic techniques such as double-voice rhymes, repeated refrains, miscellaneous sentences and other artistic techniques are used to create a rhyme and rhythm rich in national music; the selected water lotus image like a meticulous painting appears soft, clear, simple and elegant; while the overlapping, Artistic techniques such as paradox and turning beauty into beauty achieve a simple and expressive artistic conception, making her a "Ning Xin'er born from the marriage of Chinese and Western art".