Modern poets include Xu Zhimo, Dai Wangshu, Ai Qing, Wen Yiduo, Shen Haobo, Li Yunpeng, Yuan Xiaofei, Li Tang, Gao Can, Lao Xiang, Zheng Xiaoqiong, etc.
Xu Zhimo (January 15, 1897 - November 19, 1931), whose original name was Zhang Yu (xù) and the courtesy name 槱 (yǒu) Sen, changed his name to Zhimo when he studied in the United States. The pen names he has used include Nanhu, Shizhe, Haigu, Gu, etc. A native of Xiashi, Haining, Zhejiang. Modern poet, essayist, Crescent Poet, member of Crescent Poetry Society.
Xu Zhimo is the eldest grandson of the Xu family. He has lived a comfortable and affluent life since he was a child. Shen Junru is Xu Zhimo's cousin, Jin Yong is Xu Zhimo's cousin, Qiong Yao is Xu Zhimo's niece, and Xu Zhimo is also related to Li Linsi and Qian Xuesen.
Xu Zhimo is a writer who was active in the Chinese literary world for a while and had a certain influence. His worldview has no dominant ideology, or he is a transcendent "poet without partisanship" who transcends classes.
His thoughts, appearance of creation, and development trend all show that he is a bourgeois poet. The development and changes of his thoughts and the different situations before and after his creation are related to the social and historical characteristics of that time.
Xu's poems have fresh words, harmonious rhymes, novel metaphors, rich imagination, beautiful artistic conception, elegant thoughts, rich in changes, and pursue the neatness and beauty of the art form, and have a distinct artistic personality. His prose is also of its own style and has achieved as much achievement as poetry. Among them, "Autopsy", "Want to Fly", "The Cambridge I Know", "Gossips about Living in the Feilengcui Mountain", etc. are all famous names handed down from generation to generation. articles.