Farewell to Cambridge expresses the poet's love for Cambridge, his longing for his past life, his helpless sadness at present, his reluctance and nostalgia for Cambridge. The whole poem takes the emotional ups and downs when leaving Cambridge as a clue, expressing the deep affection for Cambridge's farewell.
The language is light and soft, and the form is exquisite and mellow. The poet uses the technique of alternating reality and reality to describe a flowing picture, which constitutes a wonderful artistic conception everywhere. He shows the poet's love for Cambridge, his longing for the past life and his helpless sadness in front of him in detail, which is the swan song in Xu Zhimo's poems.
This poem shows the poet's high artistic skills. The poet combines specific scenery with imagination to form a vivid artistic image of the poem, and skillfully blends atmosphere, feelings and scenes into artistic conception, so as to achieve affection and scenery in the scene. The structure of the poem is rigorous and neat, and it is strewn at random.
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Creation background
This poem was written on November 6, 1928, and was first published in New Moon Monthly on December 1, 1928, with the signature of Xu Zhimo. Cambridge, the seat of the famous Cambridge University in Britain. From October 192 to August 1922, the poet studied here.
The Cambridge period was a turning point in Xu Zhimo's life. The poet once came from Chen Dao in the Preface to the Tiger: Before the age of 24, his interest in poetry was far less than that in the theory of relativity or civil contract.
It can be said that it is the water of the Kanghe River that opens the poet's heart and awakens the poet's destiny.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Farewell to Cambridge.