When I was a child,
Homesickness is 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 is a short grave,
I'm outside,
Mom's inside.
now
Homesickness is a shallow strait,
I'm at this end,
The mainland is over there
Nostalgia from Yu Guangzhong
The poet succinctly extracted several simple images: stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits. These four images are simple, clear, concentrated and strong. They are rich, that is, they are not piled up but implicit and have tension, which can induce readers to associate in many ways. These four images materialize and concretize a very abstract "homesickness" and achieve a good artistic effect through "supporting things and expressing feelings". These images are connected by two simple demonstrative pronouns, "this" and "that", which skillfully integrate the isolated people, events, time, space and sad ends. If there is no distance and connection, it will give people who are lovesick, parting and gathering all day long a strong sound, giving people an unspeakable sadness and joy. Poetry takes the time sequence as the longitude and the distance between the two places as the latitude, which has its own fascinating charm in the level tone, causing people infinite sadness and endless sympathy.
Poetry presents the beauty of orderly structure and the beauty of musical rhythm. Pursuing lively and powerful expression in uniform and neat sentence patterns, and perfectly using the phonology of words in appropriate image combinations make poetry have the rhythm of music, full of twists and turns, singing and sighing. The poet sang the poet's deep attachment to his hometown and motherland with the modern poetic language which integrated the traditional aesthetic characteristics of China.
Homesickness has an amazing formal beauty. First, the structure contains the changes of the whole, sections and sentences, and it is balanced and symmetrical. However, there are some irregularities in neatness, and long sentences and short sentences change with each other, which embodies the characteristics of free verse. Secondly, the repetition of words in the same position and the use of overlapping words create a melody that goes on and on, singing three sighs in the music and creating a low and depressing atmosphere for the whole poem.