Xu Zhimo left us many collections of essays, such as Scales in Paris, Autumn, Fallen Leaves, Self-anatomy, Love My Eyebrows, Diary of Zhimo and so on. From Qiu Si's meditation in the Indian Ocean to Beidaihe, from the sunrise on Mount Tai to the balance in Paris, his thoughts have traveled all over the mountains and rivers, and his emotions have traveled all over the world. Reading his prose, a hot and urgent heat wave of youth came to my face, and he pursued the romantic footsteps with strong emotions. Zhu Guangqian once summarized the characteristics of European romantic literature from the end of 18 century to the beginning of 19 century as subjectivity, self-nature and naturalness. Zhu Guangqian emphasized that subjectivity is the most prominent and essential feature of romanticism. However, if we only emphasize the subjectivity of romantic literature, it will be somewhat one-sided, and romanticism has other characteristics.
Xu Zhimo lives a free life. He writes poetry if he wants, prose if he wants, unbridled love if he wants to fall in love, and wanders at home and abroad if he wants to travel. In A Night of Cold Jade, he wrote his own happiness and pain, sadness and gratitude in the style of a weak woman, interwoven with many emotions such as persistence, attachment, deep love, helplessness and self-pity. This complex thought is a true reflection of the poet's loneliness living in a foreign land (Florence), his yearning for distant lovers and the pain that love is not tolerated by society. As a wild horse, Xu Zhimo will set my soul free even if he breaks his head. He galloped in the prose world constructed by his ideals and passions. He not only wants to run wild, but also wants to fly freely! In the article "I want to fly", he urgently called: fly out of this circle, fly out of this circle! I jumped over a hill with one wing, and the shadow fell to cover 20 acres of rice fields in flight. Tired of flying at night, I dream around the spire and in circles with the wind. Poetry embodies the ideal of expressing personal subjective feelings and pursuing individual liberation, self-expansion and free development. Xu Zhimo once said in "Youth Movement": To create a new clean life for this new clean soul and body) We demand a kind of complete regeneration. The purpose of his saying this is to make individual life be driven by the desire of imagination when perceiving external things, and form a physical object that can express its thoughts from the void of feeling. Xu Zhimo's transcendence consciousness is embodied in his prose creation, that is, his extraordinary imagination. He uses fictional images to express his feelings or ideals and creates illusory artistic images. In Xu Zhimo's works, moonlight is like a graceful woman, personifying the whole text to create a hazy and wonderful artistic conception.
Xu Zhimo described the spring breeze in "Balance in Paris" in this way: don't restrain you, don't blame you, don't supervise you, don't embarrass you, don't make you angry and don't rub you. It hugs you, but its teasing fingertips will sway in your memory forever. What a light step, the mercerization of stockings can be dyed with the color in your memory at any time! Describing the spring breeze in Paris as a gentle woman is vivid, which not only describes the characteristics of the wind, but also writes his own dedication to Paris. In Planting Flowers on the Beach, Xu Zhimo uses the beach/desert to symbolize the loose and lifeless China society, uses children to plant flowers on the sand to symbolize the seeds of truth, goodness and beauty, and uses children to water the flowers drop by drop with a kettle in their left hand to symbolize their uneasy and complicated mood. There is a mysterious atmosphere with symbolic meaning in his prose. He used metaphor, personification and deformation throughout the whole paragraph, which made his prose present a beautiful romantic temperament.
Too strong to melt is a famous piece in Xu Zhimo's prose, which is often used by later generations to summarize the overall style of Xu Zhimo's prose. Bananas with hearts, what beautiful words, so red. If you want to be red, hot and strong, you must be strong, strong enough to melt!