There are many nostalgia poems, is this one by Yu Guangzhong?
When I was a child,
Nostalgia was like a small stamp,
I Over here,
Mother is over there.
When I grow up,
Nostalgia is a narrow ticket,
I am here,
The bride is there head.
Later,
Nostalgia is like a short grave,
I am outside,
My mother is inside.
And now,
Nostalgia is like a shallow strait,
I am at this end, and
the mainland is at the other end.
(1) The poet composes the poem based on the changes in time: childhood - growing up - later - now, four stages of life. On the other hand, the poet uses spatial isolation as the most common feature of these four stages: the separation of mother and son in childhood - the separation of husband and wife when they grow up - the later death of mother and son - the separation of the current wanderer from the mainland . The poet finds a counterpart to express nostalgia for each of the four stages of life: the stamps of his childhood - the ship tickets when he grew up - the later graves - and the current strait. From this, we can see that this poem uses the isolation and changes of time and space to advance the expression of poetic emotion layer by layer, and the conception is extremely clever.
(2) The whole poem shows the beauty of structure and musical beauty of rhythm. Pursue a lively and energetic form of expression in even and neat sentence patterns, and perfectly use the rhyme of words in appropriate image combinations to give the poem a musical rhythm that goes back and forth, sighing three times. The poet used modern poetry that blended traditional Chinese aesthetic features to sing out the poet's deep attachment to his hometown and motherland.
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