Nostalgia contains four images:
1. Stamps express the young student’s longing for his mother;
2. Boat tickets express the young wanderer’s Missing his newlywed wife;
3. Grave, expresses the poet's nostalgia for his deceased mother after moving to Taiwan;
4. Strait, expresses Mr. Yu Guangzhong, and both sides of the Taiwan Strait People look forward to the strong sentiments of peaceful reunification across the Taiwan Strait.
Emotionally, the poet grows up with the passage of time and the changes of the years. It is a progressive relationship. The choice of images also goes from small stamps to shallow straits, layer by layer, from home to country, reflecting As the poet grows up, he changes from missing his relatives to caring about the motherland.
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Creative background
The poem was written in 1972. Yu Guangzhong's ancestral home is Yongchun, Fujian. He left the mainland for Taiwan in 1949. Due to political reasons at that time, Taiwan was isolated from the mainland for a long time, resulting in Yu Guangzhong not returning to the mainland for many years. He has always missed his relatives and longed for the reunification of the motherland and the reunion of his relatives. In a strong sense of homesickness, the poet wrote this poem in his old residence on Xiamen Street in Taipei.
In terms of content, in chronological order, from "young son Oedipus" to "youth lovesickness", to the "life and death gap" in adulthood, to the feelings for the motherland, the evolving emotions gradually Rising embodies the vicissitudes of the poet's entire life experience from childhood to old age. The different stages of nostalgia are condensed at both ends: I - mother.
I - the bride; I (birth) - mother (death); I (the wanderer) - the mainland (motherland). The object of nostalgia ranges from the concrete "township" to the abstract national "township", from a regional hometown to a historical hometown and a cultural hometown. "Nostalgia" gradually accumulates rich connotations and expressive power.
In terms of poetic form, the four paragraphs are basically consistent in terms of word count and sentence structure: "...(time adverbial), nostalgia is...(as the carrier of 'nostalgia' that is the embodiment of imagery), I Over here,… (the specific object of ‘nostalgia’) over there”. Completed in one go, going back and forth, it seems to be a song and three sighs of emotion, with lingering sounds that last forever.
The language of poetry is pure and light, straightforward and meaningful. Adjectives with overlapping sounds such as "small", "narrow", "dwarf" and "qianqian" are used to modify the central image and enhance the vividness of the language.
In terms of artistic style, this poem is contrary to the poet's early "modern period" style of deliberately hammering out words and sentences, painstakingly managing images and contradictory grammar, and pursuing the effect of defamiliarization to make shocking words. Instead of seeking esoteric features, we pursue a tranquil and harmonious aesthetic style. Using simplicity to replace complexity, using simplicity to win, can be regarded as the most gorgeous, and return to plainness.
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