Yu Guangzhong
When I was a child/homesickness was a small stamp/I was here/my mother was there.
When I grow up/homesickness is a narrow ticket/I am here/the bride is there.
Later/homesickness was a low grave/I was outside/my mother was inside.
Now/homesickness is a shallow strait/I am here/the mainland is there.
Homesickness is a new theme in the history of China's poetry. Over the years, Yu Guangzhong has created many poems with homesickness as the theme, and Homesickness is one of them with profound meaning and touching rhyme. His homesickness poems inherited the tradition of national feelings of China's classical poems from the inner feelings, and had a strong sense of history and nationality. At the same time, Taiwan Province Province has been artificially isolated from the mainland for a long time, and the homesickness of tens of millions of people in Qian Qian, who have drifted on the isolated island, objectively has specific and extensive contents that can't be compared with the homesickness of any previous era. The poem "Homesickness" focuses on personal experiences in the mainland. A stamp in that period of youth, a boat ticket in that period of youth, and even a grave in the future are all entrusted with the poet's yearning for Qian Qian's thousands of overseas wanderers, and all these have sublimated to a new height at the end of the poem: "Now/homesickness is a shallow strait/I am here/the mainland is there." Such as Shirakawa rushing to the East China Sea, such as Qianfeng facing Mount Tai. The poet's personal joys and sorrows are intertwined with his great love for the motherland and the nation, and the poet's personal experience has become inflammatory in Qiu Si because of the emotional burning at the end, as the poet himself said: "The vertical sense of history, the horizontal sense of region, and the realism of the crossroads formed by vertical and horizontal intersections." The poet's homesickness is the variation of our national traditional homesickness in the new era and special geographical conditions, and it has an unparalleled depth in previous homesickness poems.
The musical beauty of Homesickness is mainly manifested in the rhythm of reciprocating, singing and sighing, in which the words "small", "narrow", "short" and "shallow" are used in the same position, making the whole poem deep and reciprocating, such as complaining. The use of quantifiers such as "one piece", "one side" and "one bend" enhances the aesthetic feeling of the whole poem.
"Homesickness" is a soft and slightly sad "memory song", and it is a affectionate and beautiful love song for overseas wanderers.