In addition, his prose is unique and has achieved no less achievements than poetry. Among them, Self-Anatomy, Want to Fly, Cambridge as I Know It and Chatting in Yushan Residence are all masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.
As a celebrity of that era, Xu Zhimo did everything an ordinary intellectual could do. While pursuing his happy life, he also thought deeply about the fate of the country. His marriage with Zhang Youyi was unfortunate at that time, and his faint feelings with Lin were sad. His marriage with Lu Xiaoman is warm and affectionate, but full of ups and downs.
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When people look at Xu Zhimo and his works, they will always think of the Crescent School. They regard him as the representative writer of the Crescent School and call him the "leader" of the Crescent School. This is because the formation and demise of the Crescent School are closely related to him, and he participated in the whole activities of the Crescent School. His works reflect the distinctive features of the Crescent School.
It took about ten years from the establishment of Crescent Society to the gradual formation of a literary school-Crescent School, in which Xu Zhimo always played an important role. He has a certain influence on the development history of China's new poetry, and made various experiments and explorations for the development of new poetry. His poetry has a distinctive and unique style and certain artistic skills.
From the establishment of crescent society to the formation of crescent school and its main activities (especially in literature), he is indeed a representative of crescent school, which has played a certain role in promoting and influencing the development of new poetry. However, they excessively pursued form and meter, and went astray, especially in Xu Zhimo's later thought and creation.
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