One theory is that in 1920, Xu Zhimo traveled across the ocean and studied literature from the United States to Britain. At Cambridge University in London, as a special student, he took classes at will and spent more than a year in real leisure. According to his later recollection, it was the happiest day of his life. On the beautiful He Kang River, he lies on his back on the green lawn dotted with stars and yellow flowers, or reads books or looks at the clouds in the sky. Sometimes go boating in the blue waves of Hekang River. He was completely intoxicated with the embrace of nature. On the eve of leaving London, he strolled in Cambridge on a beautiful evening, lingering and wrote this poem.
Another way of saying it is that this poem was written by Xu Zhimo on his way home after his third European tour. The time is1928165438+10.6, and the place is China Sea. One summer at the end of July, after staying at the home of the British philosopher Russell for one night, a man quietly came to Cambridge to find his English friend without any notice in advance. Unfortunately, none of his English friends are here, only Cambridge, which he is familiar with, is waiting for him silently. The scene of his past life reappeared in front of his eyes ... because he was fast and in a hurry to see another English friend, he didn't record this emotional activity. It was not until he left Marseille by boat on his way home and saw the vast sky in the face of the rough sea that he started a paper and wrote down his personal feelings about returning to Cambridge this time.