The intention and mood of Farewell to Kangqiao

Imagery: Through the depiction of such imagery as clouds, golden willows, sunset, clear watery heart, soft waves, clear pool, green grass, starlight, summer bugs, and Kangqiao, the poem shows the author's a faint feeling of parting, and expresses the author's deep feeling of bidding farewell to Kangqiao.

Mood: The poem "Farewell to Cambridge" has seven stanzas***, four lines in each stanza, two or three stanzas in each line, which is unconventional and rigorous, and the rhyme scheme strictly adheres to the two or four rhymes, which is rhythmic and catchy.

This beautiful rhythm ripples out like a ripple, which is not only the sound of the pious student's dream, but also fits in with the ebb and flow of the poet's feelings, and has a unique aesthetic pleasure. The seven stanzas of the poem are arranged in a staggered manner, and the rhymes are spread out slowly, which is quite like the poet's demeanor of "long robes and white faces, thin and cold islands". It can be said that it embodies Xu Zhimo's idea of poetic beauty.

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Background

This poem was written on November 6, 1928, and first appeared in the December 10, 1928 issue of the monthly magazine "Crescent Moon," Vol. 1, No. 10, signed by Xu Zhimo. The poem was written on November 6, 1928, and first appeared in New Moon Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 10, on October 10, 1928, signed by Xu Zhimo, who was a student at Cambridge, the site of the famous University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The Cambridge period was a turning point in Xu Zhimo's life.

The poet once said in his Preface to The Book of Tigers that before the age of 24, he was much less interested in poetry than in relativism or the theory of the civil pact. It was the water of the Kham River that opened the poet's mind and awakened the poet's destiny that had long been dormant in his heart.

So he later said with great affection, "It was Kangqiao that taught me to open my eyes, it was Kangqiao that stirred my desire to know, and it was Kangqiao that gave me the embryo of my self-consciousness." ("Smoking and Culture")

The poet returned to his homeland in 1928, and on November 6, on his way back to the South China Sea, he composed this heirloom. The poem was first published in the December 10, 1928 New Moon monthly magazine, Vol. 1, No. 10, and later included in the Tiger Collection. It can be said that the "Kangqiao plot" was present throughout Xu Zhimo's life, and "Farewell to Kangqiao" is undoubtedly one of the most famous pieces.

This poem was written on Xu Zhimo's way home from his third trip to Europe. It was written on November 6, 1928, in Shanghai, China, a summer's day in late July, when, after a one-night stay at the home of the English philosopher Russell, he came quietly to Kangqiao to look for his English friend without informing anyone beforehand.

Regrettably, none of his British friends were there, only his familiar Kangqiao was waiting for him silently, a scene of the past life scene, and again in front of his eyes to show ...... because he was in a hurry, and rushed to meet another British friend, so he did not record this emotional activity.

Until he left Marseille by boat on the way home, the face of the raging sea and the vast sky, only to show the paper pen, wrote down the return to Kangqiao's personal feelings.

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