Accidental
Author: Xu Zhimo
I am a cloud in the sky,
occasionally projected on your wave center-
You don't need to be surprised,
and you don't need to be happy-
disappeared in a twinkling.
You and I meet in the dark sea,
You have yours, I have mine, direction;
You may as well remember it,
You'd better forget it,
The light that was exchanged at this meeting.
Second, writing background:
Accidental (Xu Zhimo's poetry)
This poem was written in May 1926, and was first published in the 9th issue of the Morning Post Supplement Poetry Edition on May 27th of the same year, with the signature of Zhimo. This is the lyrics of the old blind man in the fifth act of the script Bian Kungang written by Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman.
III. About the author:
Xu Zhimo (January 15, 1897—November 19, 1931), born in Xiashi, Haining, Zhejiang Province, was a modern poet and essayist. Formerly known as Zhang Yi, it was renamed Zhimo when studying in the UK. Used pen names: Nanhu, Shizhe, Haigu, Gu, Dabing, Yun Zhonghe, Xianhe, Delete Me, Xinshou, Huanggou, Huan and so on. Xu Zhimo is a representative poet of Crescent School and a member of Crescent Poetry Society.
I graduated from Hangzhou No.1 Middle School in p>1915 and studied in Shanghai Hujiang University, Tianjin Beiyang University and Peking University successively. In 1918, he went to Clark University to study banking. I will graduate in ten months with a bachelor's degree and a first-class honor award. In the same year, he transferred to the graduate school of Columbia University in new york and entered the Department of Economics. In 1921, he went to study in Britain and became a special student at Cambridge University, studying political economy. Two years in Cambridge was deeply influenced by western education and romantic and aesthetical poets in Europe and America. Lay his romantic poetic style. Crescent Society was founded in 1923. Professor Peking University in 1924. In 1926, he served as a professor at Guanghua University (predecessor of East China Normal University), Daxia University (predecessor of East China Normal University) and Nanjing Central University (renamed Nanjing University in 1949). In 193, he resigned from his posts in Shanghai and Nanjing. At the invitation of Hu Shizhi, he was once again appointed as Professor Peking University and a professor at Beijing Women's Normal University. He was killed in a plane crash on November 19, 1931. Representative works include Farewell to Cambridge and A Night in a Cold Jade.