The content of the whole poem is actually very simple, and it is naturally divided into two parts by "urging me to go home one by one". In fact, the first part is a modern translation and embellishment of the Tang poem "The Shepherd Fingers the Xinghua Village", which explains the time, place, characters, actions and stories. The hazy appearance of Jiangnan water town imagined by the author at this time brings readers into an uninhabited and quiet world, and everything is so comfortable. So easygoing. The second part is the expression and accusation of the theme of the poem "It is better to go home". When I was a child, the scene of my hometown still came to my eyes, urging the old people who had been wandering for half their lives to go back to their hometown to see their homesickness. But the real hometown is already the feeling that "the local accent has not changed, where do tourists come from?" Xinghua Village sells vulgar popular beer, but the shepherd boy and ink painting are gone. The poet's hometown is gone. However, even so, the homesickness hidden behind the drizzle is still infinite. In fact, apart from remembering his hometown, the poet is not ashamed to worry about the vulgarization of the rural landscape in the mainland after commercialization and opening up. Whether it is beer or an excavator that wantonly destroys the quiet life in the countryside, it is the cause of the poet's heartbreak. In the poet's life, a place full of homesickness should not be socialized production.
The style of this poem is fresh and elegant, and one word after another is logical and arbitrary, instead of piling up uncommon or irrelevant words like many modern poems now. The poet seems to be chatting with the readers, lying on the rattan chair under the apricot tree, sipping mellow tea or gulping down the apricot village, which is a little spicy but full of pleasure, and slowly telling the readers the story ... On a cloudy day, riding backwards on a cow, playing a sad aria with overlapping sentences, looking at the invisible Jiangnan, imagining the idyllic scenery in the Qingming period in Jiangnan: But it is not as hopeless or desperate as described in Rain Lane, because although there are still various obstacles or difficulties in returning to my hometown, although there are still various deficiencies or dissatisfaction in my hometown, it is my hometown after all and the place I have dreamed of countless times. Because the beautiful image of hometown still has an indelible position in the poet's mind and has an indelible influence on the poet.
Compared with homesickness, which simply expresses longing and feelings for the mainland, hometown and old life, in The Cuckoo, the poet not only feels sad, dissatisfied, incredible and helpless by directly satirizing "beer", "barren hill" and "excavator", but also expresses longing and expectation for a simple and happy life in the past through deep recollection of the old life in his hometown, just like people in developed countries and regions yearn for nature. They long for a simple and ordinary life, but they can't get what they want, and their hopes are frustrated. The short poetic structure fully embodies the architectural features of poetry. This also shows the consistent style of Yu Guangzhong's poetry. The fast rhythm and natural segmentation make readers fully feel a strong sense of jumping when reading. However, the poem is a bit too long and lengthy, which seems to intentionally express some common scenery in the Qingming period in the south of the Yangtze River in a short and compact poem. The last few sentences of the poem should not only show the poet's longing for his hometown, but also his dissatisfaction with today's life. Some people may think that these simple words play the role of finishing touch, but in my opinion, Jiang Lang, who seems to link these two things together like a dog's tail and mink, is exhausted and can't write better homesickness.
But on the whole, I like this poem better: brisk rhythm, fresh words, refined and unpretentious rhetoric, appropriate hidden feelings, looming "characters", just like the poet wrote, a piper plays a melancholy aria with a bitter voice on a cloudy day, giving people infinite reverie and longing.