Homesickness is an emotion that is difficult to express. Poets extract four things from distant time and space: what, what, what, what.
Yu Guangzhong, a Taiwan Province writer, is a poet who has been away from the mainland for more than 30 years. His Homesickness, with a unique perspective and plain language, expresses the author's deep homesickness for the reunification of the motherland and the reunion of relatives. His works are deeply branded with the times. The whole poem is divided into four sections, which run through the whole text in the order of temporal and spatial changes. The poet extracted four intentions from distant time and space, such as stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits, and formed four concrete sentences, which turned the ethereal and abstract homesickness into concrete and sensible images. When young people leave home, they can only express their thoughts about their hometown and family with a sincere letter; As newlyweds, parting is sad. Only by building a bridge with "a narrow boat ticket" can parting become reunion. Later, my mother died, and "a low grave" separated me from my mother forever. Nowadays, the saddest "homesickness" is actually this "shallow strait", which has been artificially blocked for decades, making "I am on this continent and I am there". What an unforgettable memory it is! [This poem was written in 1972, when the mainland was almost isolated from Taiwan Province Province] The poem makes full use of rhetorical devices such as metaphor, contrast, repetition and contrast. Implicitly and euphemistically express the feelings of missing the motherland incisively and vividly, deeply and naturally. Hope for return, hope for the reunification of the motherland and persistent homesickness blend together, further deepening the artistic appeal of poetry. This poem embodies the beauty of structure and music in form. Homesickness has four paragraphs, each with four lines, and each paragraph is balanced and symmetrical. The poet noticed that long sentences and short sentences changed each other and had uneven beauty. The beauty of music is mainly reflected in the beautiful melody of going back and forth, singing and sighing, and the use of reduplicated words, which are tactfully low, sobbing and touching. The whole poem is like a soft and sad "homesick song", and it is also a deep and beautiful love song for the motherland and relatives, with strong lyrical meaning. The artistic conception created by poetry is gloomy and distant; The language used is novel and simple; The feelings expressed are strong and profound.