When I was a child, homesickness was a small stamp.
I'm here and my mother is there.
When I grow up, homesickness is a narrow ticket.
I'm here and the bride is there.
Later, homesickness became a temporary grave.
I'm outside and my mother is inside.
Now, homesickness is a shallow strait.
I am here and the mainland is there.
This poem is full of deep feelings, both longing for the reunification of the motherland and vivid description of homesickness. Just as many rivers in China are tributaries of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, although Yu Guangzhong lives on an isolated island, as a China poet who loves the motherland and its cultural traditions, his homesickness poems inherit the national emotional tradition in China's classical poems from the inner feelings, and have a deep sense of history and nationality.
Extended data
works appreciation
Homesickness is one of Yu Guangzhong's poems "White Jade and Bitter Melon", and it is a classic work in which Yu Guangzhong expresses homesickness with folk songs, four rhymes of homesickness and Luo Erwazi.
Yu Guangzhong is known as a poet who "shakes hundreds of millions of China people with homesickness poems", and "homesickness" is a theme that he never forgets in many of his poems. Nostalgia gives a new explanation to an abstract theme, which is difficult to describe, but covered by a lot of descriptions.
In terms of images, four common images in life, such as stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits, are selected to give them rich connotations, so that these four previously irrelevant images can be sung repeatedly under the support of homesickness.
Yu Guangzhong himself once said that this poem is "quite realistic": when I was a child, I went to boarding school and had to correspond with my mother; Go to the United States to study after marriage and return to Taiwan Province by boat; Later, my mother died and lost her maternal love forever. The first three sentences of the poem are all about women, and the last sentence thinks of the "big mother" like the mainland of the motherland, so the artistic conception and ideas will be suddenly enlightened, and there will be a sentence "Homesickness is a shallow strait".
In terms of content, in chronological order, from "young son's Oedipus" to "juvenile lovesickness", to "the turn of life and death" in adulthood, and then to the feelings for the motherland and the mainland, the growing feelings gradually rose, which condensed the poet's life vicissitudes from childhood to old age.
Nostalgia is at different stages, and the two ends of the connection are: I-mother; I-the bride; I (life)-mother (death); I (a wanderer)-the mainland (the motherland). The object of homesickness ranges from concrete "hometown" to abstract national "hometown", from regional hometown to historical hometown and cultural hometown. Make "homesickness" gradually precipitate rich connotation and expressive force.