Appreciation of Xi Murong's Homesickness

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.

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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. ? [5]? 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.