Full text of poetry
homesickness
Yu Guangzhong
When I was a child, homesickness was a small stamp.
I'm at this end,
Mom is over there.
When I grow up, homesickness is a narrow ticket.
I'm at this end,
The bride is over there.
Later, homesickness became a temporary grave.
I'm outside,
Mom's inside.
now
Homesickness is a shallow strait.
I'm at this end,
The mainland is over there
Poetry criticism
This poem is full of deep affection, which not only yearns for the reunification of the motherland, but also describes homesickness incisively and vividly. After reading this poem, four vivid and concrete life pictures are presented to readers at first. The first section: studying in the early years, separating mother and child, comforting each other by letters; Section 2: After adulthood, bid farewell to the newly married wife and leave home, living far apart; Section 3: Where will you go? Mother and son are not allowed to meet. Section 4: It is rare for compatriots to get together and the country cannot be unified. At the same time, readers can also feel the author's rich and strong feelings. The poet's homesickness is not directly expressed, but through association and imagination, four artistic images of life are shaped and presented to readers. The author combines his thoughts and feelings for his mother, wife and motherland, and expresses his strong desire for family reunion and national unity. Just as many rivers in China are tributaries of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, although Yu Guangzhong lives on an isolated island, as a China poet who loves the motherland and its cultural traditions, his homesickness poems inherit the national emotional tradition in China's classical poems from the inner feelings, and have a deep sense of history and nationality. At the same time, the homesickness of the Qian Qian people who have been artificially isolated from Taiwan Province Province and the mainland for a long time and drifted to the island has objectively specific and extensive contents that the homesickness of any previous era cannot match. As a contemporary poet who has been away from the mainland for more than 30 years, Yu Guangzhong's works are bound to be deeply branded by the times. 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 all contain the poet's yearning for thousands of overseas travelers, and all these are sublimated to a new height at the end of the poem: "Now/homesickness is a shallow strait/I am here/the mainland is there." For example, a hundred rivers rush to the East China Sea, and a thousand peaks rush to Mount Tai. The poet's personal joys and sorrows blend with his great love for the motherland and the nation, and the confession of the poet's personal experience is even more worrying because of the burning feelings at the end, as the poet himself said: "A vertical sense of history and a horizontal sense of region. The realism of the intersection formed by vertical and horizontal intersections. " From this point of view, the poet's homesickness is the variation of our national traditional homesickness poetry in the new era and special geographical conditions, with unparalleled breadth and depth. Mr Yu Guangzhong loves China traditional culture and China. Praise "China, the most beautiful and motherly country". He said: "The upstream of the blue ink is the Miluo River", "I want to be a descendant of Qu Yuan and Li Bai" and "I have a tributary of the Yellow River in my blood system".
Beauty tracking
In the extraction and refinement of images, this poem has simple and rich beauty. Homesickness, an emotion that everyone generally experiences but is difficult to capture, will either become a common mediocrity or fall into an abstract emptiness if a unique image of beauty cannot be found to express it. Nostalgia extracts four images from distant time and space: stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits. They are simple, so-called simple, not simple, but clear, concentrated and strong, without a sense of rambling; They have money, so-called money, and it is not piled up, it is hidden. Tension can induce readers to associate in many ways. In the combination of images, nostalgia synthesizes images with the development of time, which can be called image progression. "When I was a child", "When I grew up", "Later" and "Now" run through the poem like a red line, summarizing the poet's long life course and yearning for the motherland. The first three poems are like turbulent waves, and finally they collide with the nine-level waves of the whole poem.
The formal beauty of nostalgia is also remarkable. Its formal beauty is manifested in structural beauty and musical beauty. Homesickness presents the beauty from tradition in structure. Unity means relative balance and symmetry; Paragraph patterns and sentence patterns are relatively neat, and paragraph by paragraph and sentence by sentence are relatively harmonious and symmetrical. Change is to avoid unification going to extremes, and to pursue the beauty of liveliness, fluidity and vitality. Nostalgia * * * four plates. Each segment has four lines, and each segment is quite balanced and symmetrical. However, the poet pays attention to the change and adjustment of long sentences and short sentences, which makes the face of the poem neat and uneven. The musical beauty of Homesickness is mainly manifested in the beautiful melody of reciprocating, singing and sighing, in which "Homesickness is-"and "there (in the head)" are repeated four times, and overlapping words such as small, narrow, short and shallow are used in the same position in the four paragraphs. The use of quantifiers such as "one piece", "one piece", "one side" and "one bay" not only shows the poet's language skill, but also strengthens the aesthetic feeling of the whole poem.
Homesickness is like a soft and slightly sad "memory song" in music, which is a deep and beautiful love song for overseas travelers.