"This end, that end, outside" gives people the feeling that they are at the two ends of the distance, very far away. "Here and there" seems very close, not so far. I feel less homesick after I changed it.
The pronunciation of "this end, that end, outside" gives people a heavy feeling, while the pronunciation of "this side and that side" is very light and not thick enough.
The same meaning will produce cadence and lightness because of different pronunciations. Yu Guangzhong gave up lightness in frustration, which is a reflection of the poet's repressed inner world.
Author Yu Guangzhong is a contemporary poet and poetry critic. People from Hengyang, Hunan. Now lives in Taiwan Province Province. 1946 was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Xiamen University. /kloc-published his first poem in 0/948, and went to Taiwan Province with the Kuomintang army the following year. 1953 10 participated in the publication of Genesis poetry and devoted himself to the creation of modernist poetry.
His main works are Nostalgia, White Jade and Bitter Melon, Waiting for You in the Rain, etc. , poetry collection Linghe, Death of a Stone Chamber, Poetry Collection, Poet's Realm, Poetry Creation and Appreciation, etc.
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The writing background of homesickness
The writing background of Homesickness of Yu Guangzhong is that Yu Guangzhong left the mainland for Taiwan Province Province on 1949. At that time, due to political reasons, Taiwan Province Province was isolated from the mainland for a long time, which prevented Yu Guangzhong from returning to the mainland for many years.
He has always missed his loved ones and longed for the reunification of the motherland and the reunion of his loved ones. With strong homesickness, the poet wrote this poem in his former residence of Xiamen Street in Taipei on 1972.
Through the time series of "when I was a child", "when I grew up", "later" and "now", the poem concretizes the abstract homesickness with stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits, summarizes the poet's long life course and endless homesickness for the motherland, and reveals the poet's profound sense of history. The whole poem has simple language and deep feelings.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-homesickness