Modern poet Yu Guangzhong
When I was a kid.
Homesickness/is a//small stamp.
I/at this end
Mother/over there
When I grow up
Homesickness/is a//narrow ticket.
I/at this end
The bride/over there.
We'll talk about it later.
Nostalgia/is a side//a short grave.
I/am outside
Mother/inside
And/or now
Homesickness is a shallow bay//strait.
I/at this end
On the mainland/in/over there.
Creation background
This poem was written in 1972. Yu Guangzhong's ancestral home is Yongchun, Fujian. He 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 in Xiamen Street, Taipei.
The influence of later generations
Nostalgia was selected as a Chinese textbook for middle schools by China Publishing House and People's Education Publishing House.
works appreciation
Poetry is pure and light in language, simple, frank and meaningful. Use adjectives such as "small", "narrow", "short" and "shallow" to decorate the central image and enhance the vividness of the language.
In terms of artistic style, this poem turns to pursue a calm and harmonious aesthetic style instead of the characteristics of the poet's early "modern period", such as deliberately hammering words and refining sentences, painstakingly managing images and contradictory grammar, pursuing bizarre effects and creating amazing words, and seeking abstinence from obscurity. Replacing complexity with simplicity and winning with lightness are also extremely gorgeous and belong to blandness.