Reflections after reading "Zhimo's Poems"

His first collection of poems, "Zhimo's Poems", is another monument after Guo Moruo's "Goddess". Guo Moruo's poems are majestic, majestic and majestic, while Xu Zhimo's poems are elegant, graceful and graceful. This is due to the differences in life experiences and thoughts and emotions, and also because Guo Moruo pays attention to the grandeur and power of the theme, while Xu Zhimo focuses on the arrangement of form and the coordination of tone.

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 and put the poetic flavor of foreign poetry into it. Xu Zhimo's poems do have some influence from the British poets Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Shelley and Hardy. At the same time, France's Baudelaire, the United States' Whitman, and India's Tagore are also Xu Zhimo's foreign influences. professor. 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 writing is very different from Chinese writing. The musical beauty of European and American poetry is reflected in the meter and rhyme, which is 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 poems. In addition, there are three follow-up rhymes, double cross rhymes, parallel sentence rhymes, chapter rhymes, four lines and one rhyme, and six lines. One rhyme and odd-even rhyme were all brought back to China by him. Perhaps no one had conducted so many forms of experiments before Xu Zhimo. Therefore, Mr. Zhu Ziqing 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." Poetry, as the highest art, 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 "Sayang Nala - A Gift to a Japanese Girl" written by Xu Zhimo when he accompanied Rabindranath Tagore on his visit to Japan:

The most important thing is that The tenderness of bowing one's head

Like a water lotus that cannot withstand the cool breeze and its shyness

A word of treasure, a word of treasure

There is sweet sadness in that word of treasure - —

Sayanara

This poem uses the different lengths of the lines to create a staggered effect. It uses the rhyme of alternate lines to express subtle and complex emotions. The overlap between words and sentences creates a recurring melody. This poem is short and sentimental, with three sighs in one sentence. It is lingering and pathos, making people return to it endlessly, and it feels like a divine help. This is the contribution of the melody.

There is also a beauty of painting in Xu Zhimo’s poems. Although it is not as full of Zen as Wang Wei's "Poems in Paintings, Poems in Paintings", it can still describe beautiful artistic conceptions and create beautiful images in poems. "I Have a Love", "Leifeng Under the Moon Video", "Snowflake's Joy", etc. are all such works. This is the effect of rhetoric and the necessity of the situation. Poetry is a matter of romance, but it cannot be separated from the realm of romance. This is true of poetry at home and abroad, both in ancient and modern times. A poem that is nothing but moaning and shouting is never a good poem. Xu Zhimo knew this very well, so there were both descriptive images, metaphorical images, and even symbolic images in his poems. These romantic images derived from imagination are novel and unique, producing the unique artistic charm of poetry and painting.

The architectural beauty of poetry is Wen Yiduo’s third discovery about the beauty of poetry. The poems in Xu Zhimo's later poetry collections were greatly influenced by Wen Yiduo. The sentences were more orderly, the rhythm was brighter, and the meter was more sophisticated. Later, Xu Zhimo showed Wen Yiduo his collection of poems "A Night in Fei Leng Cui", and Wen Yiduo said it was "a huge improvement." The architectural beauty of poetry is mainly about the visual aspect, which includes the uniformity of stanzas and sentences. Most of Wen Yiduo's poems are relatively homogeneous, and sometimes they are like tofu cubes, returning to the old path of ancient poetry. Xu Zhimo had already noticed uniformity in "Zhimo's Poems", but he did not force uniformity, but allowed the poetic meaning to stretch more naturally.

Xu Zhimo’s experiments in new poetry forms are admirable. Not only did he try his best to introduce foreign poetry styles, he also wrote philosophical poems, prose poems, and even spoken poems in Beijing dialect or Zhejiang Xiashi dialect. His poems are not only in metrical style, but also in free style; not only in ballad style, but also in dialogue style; not only in lyrical style, but also in narrative style.

However, it is unfair to arbitrarily say that Xu Zhimo's poems are a hodgepodge of formalism. Although his last two poetry collections are perfect in form and empty in content, if you don't count "A Night in the Emerald Green," which sings about love, "Zhimo's Poems" is more beautiful in comparison, with idealism and humanitarian sentiments, and takes up all the The sincerity and joy of poetry.

Xu Zhimo is known as the "Poetic Philosopher". His poems come from "the muscles and bones, the blood, the spirit and the life." Some contemporary poets laughed at Xu Zhimo's petty bourgeoisie, aestheticism and naivety, while others regarded his emotional entanglements with several women as a topic of conversation after dinner. I was surprised by his unusual death that fell from the sky. Xu Zhimo has "that desperate and fierce burning passion" and dares to explore the deep mountains of poetic formalism. Even now, poets are also lost in the sea of ??poetry with various European and American schools. For Xu Zhimo, we don’t need to be too demanding, but we need to learn from and reflect on. After all, "Zhimo's Poems" got rid of the loose structure and sloppy sentences in the early days of new poetry, bringing us a breath of fresh air and setting new poetry on a new milestone.