Xu Zhimo’s classmate Yu Dafu’s achievements in the creation of ancient poems exceeded that of novels, while Xu Zhimo is famous for his creation of new poems. His first collection of poems, "Zhimo's Poems", is the successor to Guo Moruo's Another monument after "The Goddess". Guo Moruo's poems are majestic, heroic and magnificent, while Xu Zhimo's poems are elegant, elegant, bright and soft. This is due to the difference in life experience and thoughts and emotions, and also because Guo Moruo pays attention to the grandeur and power of the theme. It shows that Xu Zhimo devoted himself to the arrangement of forms and the coordination of tones.
Liang Shiqiu believed that Xu Zhimo’s poetry creation originated from the study of English poetry, and believed that Xu Zhimo used Chinese to create the rhythm of foreign poetry. The poetry of foreign poetry. There are indeed some shadows of British poets Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Shelley and Hardy in Xu Zhimo's poems, as well as the French Baudelaire, the American Whitman, and the Indian Tagore. They were also Xu Zhimo’s foreign professors. These people allowed Xu Zhimo to broaden his horizons, learn to express emotions, and also allowed Xu Zhimo to transplant the flowers of foreign poetry forms to China.
Alphabetic characters are very different from Chinese characters, and European and American poetry The beauty of music is reflected in the meter and rhyme, which are very different from the rhythm and rhythm of ancient Chinese poetry. In terms of rhyme, Xu Zhimo made bold attempts to follow the rhyme, cross rhyme, and embrace rhyme of foreign poetry. In addition, there are three following styles The rhyme, double cross rhyme, parallel sentence rhyme, chapter rhyme, four lines with one rhyme, six lines with one rhyme, odd and even rhymes were all brought back to China by him. I am afraid that no one before Xu Zhimo had conducted so many forms of experiments. So Zhu Ziqing The teacher praised him: Mr. Xu experimented with various foreign poetry styles, and his talent was enough to control these forms, so he achieved remarkable results.
Xu Zhimo once said: "We have realized that poetry is art." As the highest art Poetry also has to absorb the tone and rhythm of music. Xu Zhimo's understanding of syllables is to seek matching syllables based on poetic feeling and poetic flavor, in order to obtain the perfect harmony of rhythm changes and emotional ups and downs.
The melody of poetry is another kind of musical beauty. Please read "Saya Nala - A Gift to a Japanese Girl" written by Xu Zhimo when he accompanied Rabindranath Tagore on his visit to Japan: