Say goodbye to Cambridge again
Author: Xu Zhimo
I left quietly, just as I came gently;
I waved my hand gently and bid farewell to the clouds in the western sky.
The golden willow by the river is the bride in the sunset;
Beautiful shadows in the waves ripple in my heart.
Green grass on the soft mud, oily, swaying at the bottom of the water;
In the gentle waves of He Kanghe, I would like to be an aquatic plant!
The pool under the shade of the elm tree is not a clear spring.
It is the rainbow in the sky that is crushed in floating seaweed, precipitating a rainbow-like dream.
Looking for dreams? Support a long pole and swim back to a greener place on the grass.
Full of starlight, singing in the splendor of starlight.
But I can't play the piano, just a farewell flute;
Summer insects are also silent for me. Silence is Cambridge tonight.
Creative background:
The days when I was studying at Cambridge University in England, especially deeply influenced Xu Zhimo's life. He called Cambridge his "spiritual hometown". The British civilization embodied in Cambridge intoxicated Xu Zhimo and gradually formed his dream of "Cambridge ideal".
1922 Xu zhimo returned to China. The reality of China under the rule of warlords was dark, which gradually shattered his ideal. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/928, he went to England again and wrote "Farewell to Cambridge" on the boat returning from England on June 6.
Second, appreciation:
The melancholy feelings in Farewell to Cambridge are deeply hidden in the elegant and free description. "I left gently, just as I came gently"-the lyric hero is like a flowing cloud, invisible, free and stretched. Cambridge in the hero's mind is also dreamlike, beautiful and fragile. Images such as "Golden Willow", "Green Grass", "Xinghui" and "Xiao Sheng" are used in the poem to describe the beauty of Cambridge's landscape and its attachment to Cambridge. These images are often both scenery and lyrical, and scenery and emotion are inseparable.
"The golden willow by the lake is the bride in the sunset"-the bride is not only a scene, but also the image of my lover and the expression of old feelings in my heart-emotion and scenery are integrated with each other. Between the golden willows and the green grass, "I" stubbornly searched for "rainbow-like dreams" and "singing in the starlight". In fact, "I" could not indulge in singing, only "silence" and "quietly" left.
The scenery remains the same and the people are completely different. The poet bid farewell to Cambridge with his lover's lingering farewell mood and style, and wrote a kind of bitterness. It should be said that this poem is the poet's farewell to the ideal in his heart, affectionate and quiet, and seems to be afraid of breaking the dream in his heart. It subtly reveals the poet's infinite sadness caused by the disillusionment of Cambridge ideal.
Xu Zhimo's poems are simple, light, gentle and full of melancholy. He is good at combining atmosphere, emotion and scenes, and writing dreamlike scenes is also full of a dreamy artistic conception. And the emotional cycle is repeated, free to stretch, and there is no wriggling. Farewell to Cambridge is particularly soothing and pleasant to read, with a harmonious and elegant musical beauty.
Three. About the author:
Xu Zhimo (1897 65438+1October 193165438+1October19) is a modern poet and prose. Formerly known as Zhang Yi, it was renamed Zhimo when studying in the UK. Used pen names: Nanhu, Shi Zhecun, Gu,,, Xianhe, Delete Me, Xinshou, Huanggou, Huan, etc. Xu Zhimo is a representative poet of Crescent School and a member of Crescent Poetry Society.
19 15 graduated from Hangzhou No.1 Middle School and studied in Shanghai Hujiang University, Tianjin Beiyang University and Peking University successively. 19 18 went to Clark university to study banking. I will graduate in ten months with a bachelor's degree and a first-class honor award. In the same year, he transferred to the Graduate School of Columbia University in new york and entered the Department of Economics.
192 1 year went to study in Britain and became a special student at Cambridge University, studying political economy. My two years in Cambridge were deeply influenced by western education and romantic and aesthetic poets in Europe and America. It established his romantic poetic style. Crescent Society was founded in 1923. Professor Peking University went from 65438 to 0924. 1926 Professor of Guanghua University, Daxia University and Nanjing Central University (1949 renamed Nanjing University). 1930 resigned from Shanghai and Nanjing. At the invitation of Hu Shizhi, he was re-appointed as Professor Peking University and Professor of Beijing Women's Normal University. 193 1 year1month 19 died in a plane crash. Representative works include Farewell to Cambridge and Cold Jade Night.