This poem is Farewell to Cambridge by modern poet Xu Zhimo. This poem was written on Xu Zhimo's way home from his third European tour in 1928. It is a lyric poem about scenery, which expresses the author's nostalgia, farewell and sadness after disillusionment. The original poem is as follows:
I left gently, just as I came gently; I gently waved and bid farewell to the clouds in the western sky.
The golden willow by the river is the bride in the sunset; The beautiful shadows in the waves are rippling in my heart.
the green grass on the soft mud is oily and swaying at the bottom of the water; In the gentle waves of Kanghe River, I am willing to be an aquatic plant!
That pool under the shade of elm is not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky; Crushed among the floating algae, a rainbow-like dream is precipitated.
dreaming? Support a long pole and wander back to the greener place of the grass; Full of a boat full of starlight, singing in the splendor of starlight.
but I can't play songs, and silence is a farewell flute; 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.
Extended information
This poem was written on November 6, 1928, and was first published in the No.1 of Volume 1 of New Moon Monthly on December 1, 1928, signed by Xu Zhimo, and later included in Tiger Collection. Cambridge is the seat of the famous Cambridge University in Britain. From October 192 to August 1922, the poet studied here.
This poem Farewell to Cambridge consists of seven verses, each with four lines, two or three meals per line. It is eclectic and rigorous, and its rhyme strictly adheres to the rhymes of two and four, with cadence and catchiness. This beautiful rhythm ripples like ripples, which is not only the sound of pious students seeking dreams, but also conforms to the ebb and flow of poets' feelings and has a unique aesthetic pleasure.
The poet combines specific scenery with imagination to form a vivid artistic image of the poem, and skillfully blends the atmosphere, feelings and scenes into artistic conception, so as to achieve affection in the scene and scenery in the emotion. It fully embodies the "three beauties" of the Crescent Poetry School, namely, the beauty of painting, architecture and music.