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 Taiwan Province Strait, summarizes the poet's long life course and his constant nostalgia for the motherland, and reveals the poet's profound sense of history.
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.
Brief introduction of the author
Yu Guangzhong (1928~20 17) was born in Yongchun, Fujian. 1947 studied in the Foreign Languages Department of Jinling University and transferred to Xiamen University the following year. In the same year, my parents and I went to Hongkong, and the next year I went to Taiwan Province Province.
1952 graduated from the Foreign Languages Department of Taiwan Province Provincial University. 1957 editor-in-chief of Blue Star Weekly. Master of Arts, University of Iowa, USA, 1959. Editor-in-chief of modern literature and satellites.
1974 to 1985 Professor, Chinese Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 1985 returned to Taiwan Province to teach. His published poems include Cold War Years, White Jade and Bitter Melon, Sirius, Ode to Bauhinia and Night Watch.