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.
Nostalgia was selected as a Chinese textbook for middle schools by China Publishing House and People's Education Publishing House.
Nostalgia is one of Yu Guangzhong's poems "White Jade and Bitter Melon", and it is a classic work in which Yu Guangzhong expresses homesickness with folk songs, four rhymes of homesickness and Luo Erwazi.
Yu Guangzhong is known as a poet who "shakes hundreds of millions of China people with homesickness poems", and "homesickness" is a theme that he never forgets in many of his poems. Nostalgia gives a new explanation to an abstract theme, which is difficult to describe, but covered by a lot of descriptions.
In terms of images, four common images in life, such as stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits, are selected to give them rich connotations, so that these four previously irrelevant images can be sung repeatedly under the support of homesickness.
Yu Guangzhong himself once said that this poem is "quite realistic": when I was a child, I went to boarding school and had to correspond with my mother; Go to the United States to study after marriage and return to Taiwan Province by boat; Later, my mother died and lost her maternal love forever. The first three sentences of the poem are all about women, and the last sentence thinks of the "big mother" like the mainland of the motherland, so the artistic conception and ideas will be suddenly enlightened, and there will be a sentence "Homesickness is a shallow strait".
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.
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.