The Writing Background of Farewell to Cambridge
1920 Xu Zhimo traveled across the ocean to study literature from the United States to Britain. At Cambridge University in London, as a special student, he took classes at will and spent more than a year in real leisure. According to his later recollection, it was the happiest day of his life. On the beautiful He Kang River, he lies on his back on the green lawn dotted with stars and yellow flowers, or reads books or looks at the clouds in the sky. Sometimes go boating in the blue waves of Hekang River. He was completely intoxicated with the embrace of nature. On the eve of leaving London, he wandered in Cambridge on a beautiful evening, lingering and writing this poem.