When I was a child, homesickness was a small stamp. I'm here and my mother is there.
When I grow up, homesickness is a narrow ticket. I'm here and the bride is there.
Later, homesickness became a temporary grave. I'm outside and my mother is inside.
Now, homesickness is a shallow strait. I am here and the mainland is there.
Appreciation of homesickness;
Homesickness is a common theme in China's poems. Over the years, Yu Guangzhong has created many poems with homesickness as the theme, and homesickness is one of them with profound feelings and touching style.
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 profound sense of history and nationality. At the same time, the homesickness of Qian Qian people who have been artificially isolated and drifted to the island in Taiwan Province Province and the mainland for a long time 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. " (Preface to White Jade and Bitter Melon) The poet's homesickness is a variation of China's traditional homesickness poetry in the new era and special geographical conditions, with unparalleled breadth and depth.
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, by no means simple, but clear, concentrated and strong, without a sense of looseness and confusion; 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 terms of image combination, nostalgia combines 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 of diversity and unity 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. The four repetitions of "homesickness is-"and "here" ... there (at the head) ",coupled with the use of overlapping words in the same position in four paragraphs, make the use of quantifiers such as" one piece ","one piece ","one side "and" one bay "in the whole poem not only show the poet's language skills, but also strengthen 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.