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Nostalgia
—Yu Guangzhong
When I was a child,
Nostalgia was like a small stamp.
I am on this end,
My mother is on the other end.
When I grow up,
Nostalgia is a narrow ticket.
I am at this end,
The bride is at the other end.
Later,
Nostalgia is a short grave.
I am outside,
My mother is inside.
And now,
Nostalgia is a shallow strait.
I am here,
The mainland is over there.
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Poetry Appreciation
The poem is profound and meaningful. It not only longs for the reunification of the motherland, but also describes the nostalgia vividly. Just like the great Chinese nation, Many rivers on the ground are tributaries of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. Although Yu Guangzhong lives on an island, as a Chinese poet who loves his motherland and its cultural traditions, his nostalgia poems inherit the national sentiment tradition in our country's classical poetry from the inner emotional level. , has a profound sense of history and nationality. At the same time, the long-term artificial isolation between Taiwan and the mainland and the homesickness of millions of people drifting to isolated islands objectively have a specific and broad content that is incomparable to the nostalgia of any previous era. . As a contemporary poet who has been away from the mainland for more than thirty years, Yu Guangzhong's works will inevitably bear a profound mark of the times. The poem "Nostalgia" focuses on personal experiences in mainland China. A stamp in his youth, a boat ticket in his youth, and even a grave in the future all convey the poet's long-lasting memories of thousands of overseas wanderers. Thoughts of hometown, and all this reaches a new level at the end of the poem: "And now / homesickness is a shallow strait / I am at this end / the mainland is at the other end." It's like hundreds of rivers running towards the East China Sea, like Thousands of peaks are heading towards Mount Tai. The poet's personal joys and sorrows are blended with the great love for the motherland and the nation. The poet's personal experience is also more provocative and melancholy because of the burning emotions at the end, just as the poet himself said Said: "The vertical sense of history, the horizontal sense of region. The intersection of vertical and horizontal forms the sense of reality at the crossroads." (Preface to "White Jade Bitter Melon") In this way, the poet's "Nostalgia" is the traditional nostalgia poem of our country in the new era and The variations under special geographical conditions have a breadth and depth unmatched by previous nostalgia poems. Mr. Yu Guangzhong loves traditional Chinese culture and China. Praise "China, the most beautiful and motherly country". He said: "The upper reaches of blue ink is the Miluo River", "I want to be the descendant of Qu Yuan and Li Bai", "There is a tributary of the Yellow River in my bloodline".
This poem by Yu Guangzhong closely connects the mainland of the motherland with Taiwan and expresses the author's strong homesickness.
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Poetry Analysis
This poem by Yu Guangzhong closely connects the motherland and Taiwan, expressing the author’s longing for the motherland. Thoughts and Feelings
1. Appreciation: The author metaphorically transforms the invisible nostalgia into four things, which shows that the author is deeply worried. When he was a child, the author placed his nostalgia in letters to his family, so he compared nostalgia to stamps. ; After growing up, the author and his family lived in two places, and it was difficult to see them, so he pinned his homesickness on the boat home, so he compared homesickness to a ticket; later, his mother passed away, and the author and her mother could no longer see each other. So the author compared his sadness to a grave; now, due to man-made reasons, compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait cannot reunite. The author compared his homesickness to the Taiwan Strait, expressing his strong desire to look forward to the motherland.
2. Structure: This poem is divided into four sections. The author compares nostalgia to stamps, ship tickets, graves and straits in chronological order. The structure is rigorous and expresses the core of the poem well. Mr. Yu Guangzhong, a Taiwanese poet, is known as the "Nostalgia Poet". One of his poems, "Nostalgia", which has profound meaning and is well-known to every household, writes about the longing for homecoming of overseas wanderers, and is filled with the poet's "China complex" that haunts him.
Feelings: 1. Strong cultural root-seeking complex
The attachment to one’s homeland can be said to be the most common and eternal human emotion. Yu Guangzhong's "Nostalgia" focuses on two aspects to express this cultural sense of belonging to the motherland, or what is called the falling leaves returning home complex.
First of all, Mr. Yu Guangzhong's "Nostalgia" inherits the tradition of national emotions in Chinese classical poetry from the inner emotional level, and has a profound sense of nationality. Chinese poetry emphasizes implicitness and the use of imagery to express emotions and thoughts. Mr. Yu Guangzhong relied on the artistic techniques of Chinese classical poetry to extract four perceptible images from the vast time and space that are closely related to the four stages of the poet's life: "stamps", "ship tickets", "graves" and "straits". And cleverly transforms the abstract emotion of nostalgia into four images. When I was a child, I was separated from my motherland due to national policies. At that time, I could only carry my heavy nostalgia with a small "stamp" in the form of letters. This small "stamp" became the sentiment of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The hub of communication is just like the famous line written by Du Fu in "Spring Hope": "The war continues for three months, and letters from home are worth ten thousand gold." Letters contain the suffering and longing of the Chinese people.
In middle age, after the author got married and got married, he still couldn't get rid of this distant concern. The marriage that was supposed to be happy, warm and sweet has turned into the fatigue and loneliness of the sea journey. The old "tickets" are full of empty years and the touch of togetherness. The old "tickets" have cut off countless Mandarin duck dream. What makes the poet most distressed is that his old mother, whom he longs for and wants to go back to visit, disappears into thin air amidst the painful waiting and longing, and is buried forever in the hometown he misses so much by a pinch of dazzling mud. The short "grave" has become the insurmountable Great Wall between life and death, and the short "grave" has become an ecstasy of longing.
On the basis of describing his own feelings of homesickness, Mr. Yu Guangzhong revealed this emotional experience into the hearts of every Chinese, and expressed the homesickness of all overseas travelers, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in a shallow way. The Strait of China was shown to the compatriots of the motherland, and this kind of nostalgia for the Chinese nation was deeply rooted in the palace of people's hearts. At this time, the thoughts and emotions of the poem have been sublimated into the hearts of the entire nation and the Chinese people around the world. Readers can feel the author's rich and strong complex of returning to his roots. The poet's homesickness is not stated directly, but through association and imagination, four images of life art are created and presented to the readers. The author combines his longing and nostalgia for his mother, wife, and motherland, and expresses the "Chinese complex" of longing for the reunion of his relatives and the reunification of the country.
Secondly, just as many rivers in China are tributaries of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, although Yu Guangzhong lives on an island, as a Chinese poet who loves his motherland and its cultural traditions, his works are deeply Chinese culture, especially the influence of The Book of Songs. The formal beauty of "Nostalgia" is also eye-catching. Its formal beauty is expressed as structural beauty and musical beauty. "Nostalgia" structurally presents the beauty of change and unity. Section 4 of "Nostalgia". Each stanza has four lines, and the stanzas are quite balanced and symmetrical. However, the poet paid attention to the changes and adjustments in long and short sentences, so that the poem's appearance is neat but has uneven beauty. The musical beauty of "Nostalgia" is mainly reflected in the use of repetition techniques in the "Book of Songs" to create a melody that goes back and forth, singing and sighing three times. Among them, "nostalgia is -" and "at this end...over there (in)" are repeated four times, plus "small", "narrow", "short", " The use of the repeated word "Qianqian" in the same position makes the whole poem low-key and suppressive, like a complaint. The use of the numerals "one", "one piece", "one side" and "one bay" not only shows the poet's language skills, but also enhances the beauty of the phonology of the whole poem.
The use of classical poetry resources makes Yu Guangzhong's poems present a pure and beautiful dimension as a whole, which is also very meaningful in the cultural framework. The inscription-like sentences and speed, pure and beautiful language, neat postures, these Yu Guangzhong's consistent techniques are all derived from his unwavering "Chinese complex".
2. A profound sense of historical vicissitudes
Wanderers, drifters, and vagrants who are far away from their hometown, even in their old age, hope to return to their roots. However, the long-term artificial isolation between Taiwan and the mainland has made the thousands of people of Yan and Huang descendants in Taiwan feel endless homesickness. Objectively, they have a specific sense of historical vicissitudes that is incomparable to the nostalgia of any previous era. That is, the unique “China complex”.
“When I was a child,” “when I grew up,” “later,” and “now,” these time-sequential words run through the whole poem like a red line, summarizing the poet’s long life history and views. The continuous nostalgia for the motherland, the gradual progression of levels makes the theme gradually clear from vagueness, revealing the poet's deep sense of history. "Later/Nostalgia is a short grave/I am outside/My mother is inside/And now/Nostalgia is a shallow strait/I am at this end/The mainland is at that end", all of a sudden, the reader seems to appear in front of him There was a white-haired old man kneeling in front of his mother's new grave with tears streaming down his face. Facing the direction of his hometown and motherland, he knelt on the seaside in pain and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Mother!" A deep sense of vicissitudes of life arose spontaneously.
"Nostalgia" is like a soft and slightly sad "memory song" in music, just like Mr. Yu Guangzhong's answer to a sentence of Sichuan writer Liushahe: I miss Shu but feel unhappy.
It also reflects Mr. Yu Guangzhong’s patriotism!