Xu Zhimo

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This paper analyzes selected poems by Xu Zhimo in order to demonstrate the innovative ways that Xu Zhimo dealt with anxieties and solitudes, hesitations and doubts, nostalgia and expectancy, exile and dreams, all of which are constant themes in Romantic minds and works.

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"Xu Zhimo demonstrates a strong sense of self determination, especially with regards to love and free political will. His works span only a very short lifetime, despite Xu Zhimo's well educated and well traveled life of profundity his life ended tragically at age thirty six, the victim of a plane crash. Xu Zhimo bears his soul through his short life in a literary career bound in modernity. He travels the road from romantic idealism to near the end of his life pessimism and heartbreak. It is not known how Xu Zhimo's outlook or literary endeavors might have changed, had he lived longer but his story is often seen as one of unrequited love, repeatedly trapped by the propriety of his age."

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