I left quietly, just as I came gently; I waved my hand gently and became a cloud in another world.
The golden willow by the river is the bride in the sunset; Beautiful shadows in the waves ripple in my heart.
Green grass on the soft mud, oily, swaying at the bottom of the water; In the gentle waves of He Kanghe, I would like to be an aquatic plant.
That pool under the shade of elm is not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky; Crushed in floating seaweed, a rainbow-like dream is precipitated.
Looking for dreams? Holding a long pole, slowly trace back to greener grass; Full of starlight, singing in the splendor of starlight.
But I can't sing, it's quietly leaving other voices; Summer insects are also silent for me, silence is Cambridge tonight!
I left quietly, just as I came quietly; I waved my sleeve without taking away a cloud.
First, the clever use of metaphor.
1. Metaphor: It has been said that one of the secrets of Xu Zhimo's poetic success is to make good use of metaphor, and metaphor is obviously the best bridge to spread images. For example, the phrase "The golden willow by the river is the bride in the sunset". The metaphor of "bride" and "willow" is similar because it has the characteristics of "softness".
Metaphor: The most striking feature of good metaphor in poetry is that it has both the essence of metaphor and no traces of metaphor, which makes people feel that the ontology and metaphor in poetry are integrated. For example, does the phrase "a pool under the shade of elm is not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky" actually mean image? The author uses metaphor not only in use but also in the opposite direction, completely divorced from analogy.
3. Grafting: The so-called "grafting" is to transform the "vehicle" into a vehicle for extended description under the standard forms of "vehicle", "vehicle" and "vehicle". For example, "the golden willow by the river is the bride in the sunset." The latter is originally a metaphor, but it is a metaphor.
Second, the flexible embellishment of symbolic rhetoric.
Symbol is equally important to the concept of "image", because the content of "image" can be said to directly determine the main content and significance of "symbol", such as "Golden Willow by the River", "Bride in the Sunset" and "Starry Bright", don't they all point to the image of "beautiful Cambridge"? The rainbow in the sky, broken by floating algae and Farewell to Xiao Sheng point to the image of "sadness of parting"
For example, The Bride in the Sunset is a symbol of the image of "beautiful Cambridge". The whole sentence does not directly write the word "beautiful", so it is slightly "hidden", but "sunset"? Obviously, it is more "empty", because Seeing the sun, though glorious, and Buried by the coming night, the former echoes the image of "beautiful Cambridge" and the latter echoes the image of "sadness of parting", which is really successful.
Three. A vivid image of personification.
For example, in The Summer Insect is Silent for Me, it is this way to judge with the words "anthropomorphic verb" and "silence", which is actually aimed at the image of "sadness of parting".
Fourth, imitate the world in a colorful way.
Although Xu Zhimo didn't use a lot of "colors" in Farewell to Cambridge, the relationship between "colors" and "images" can still be shown if colors that can still be naturally associated with things themselves are included.
Among the clouds, golden willows, colored shadows and rainbows in Farewell to Cambridge, gold is obviously warm, while other colors are obviously dazzling although not explicitly mentioned. These words actually point to the image of a beautiful Cambridge, indicating that Xu Zhimo is bidding farewell to Cambridge.
Cool colors refer to "black" and "gray". Although this color is not understood in A Farewell to Cambridge, the full text can best express the author's deep feelings, that is, the sentence "Silence is Cambridge tonight" with the image of "sadness of parting", and the time sequence suddenly jumps to "night", which is obviously full of the tone of "cold tone", so it is "fixed"
Farewell to Cambridge is written with sentimental feelings. The poet skillfully used rhetorical devices to melt his deep affection for Cambridge into his distinctive images and imagination when he quietly left. "Golden Willow in Sunset", "Sparkling Shadow" and "Rainbow in the Pool" brought the author into the old times, so that the poet wanted to turn himself into a water plant and be drunk in the soft waves of He Kanghe. In the afterglow of the sunset, the poet not only bid farewell to the clouds in the western world, but also bid farewell to his life's lofty sentiments and dreams. When the poet could only leave quietly, he left a faint sadness that was unforgettable for generations. We can't forget not only these charming poems, but also Xu Zhimo's youthful, romantic and innocent temperament. He really left Wang Guowei's words: