First, the specificity of the image?
The images in Homesickness are simple-stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits. However, it is these simple and concrete images that create a heavy, vigorous, sad and depressed nostalgic atmosphere.
Homesickness is an invisible and intangible inner emotion. The poet externalizes his inner homesickness into an image through the carrier of "stamp". In this way, "homesickness is a small stamp" directly explains why mother and son can't get along day and night despite their deep feelings: "I am here/my mother is there".
Because I miss my mother, I can't meet directly, so I need stamps to convey my feelings. This is a causal relationship, which reflects the pain and helplessness of the poet's long-term separation from his mother when he was a child.
Second, the abstraction of images?
The four visual images of homesickness-stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits-are independent, but they have profound internal relations. This is the progressiveness and abstraction of their images. Progressive refers to the use of parallelism structure in the whole poem to deepen their image connotation layer by layer.
Abstraction refers to the hidden connotation between their images: the image of "stamp" contains the poet's sad feelings, suggesting that the closest mother can't meet directly because of the political estrangement between Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province; "boat ticket" means that with the growth of years, homesickness is getting heavier and heavier; The "grave" implies that homesickness has become an irreversible life tragedy because of its long absence;
The "Strait" makes recessive politics explicit, which deeply implies that the political estrangement between the mainland and Taiwan Province Province is not only a tragedy of individuals and families, but also a tragedy of the Chinese nation. Thus, the whole poem expresses the poet's deep, dignified, sad and depressed homesickness and his strong spiritual appeal for the early reunification of the motherland.
This kind of spiritual appeal permeates the boiling blood factor of the people in China, so it sublimates into the lofty patriotic feelings of the Chinese nation and arouses the infinite enthusiasm of hundreds of millions of people in China.
Extended data:
Homesickness is a modern poem written by modern poet Yu Guangzhong in 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.
The poet succinctly extracted several simple images: stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits. These four images are simple, clear, concentrated and strong.
They are rich, that is, they are not piled up but implicit and have tension, which can induce readers to associate in many ways. These four images materialize and concretize a very abstract "homesickness" and achieve a good artistic effect through "supporting things and expressing feelings".
These images are connected by two simple demonstrative pronouns, "this" and "that", which skillfully integrate the isolated people, events, time, space and sad ends.
If there is no distance and connection, it will give people who are lovesick, parting and gathering all day long a strong sound, giving people an unspeakable sadness and joy. Poetry takes the time sequence as the longitude and the distance between the two places as the latitude, which has its own fascinating charm in the level tone, causing people's infinite sorrow and endless sorrow.
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