Original text of "Nostalgia":
When I was a child, nostalgia was like a small stamp. I was on this side and my mother was on the other side.
When I grow up, nostalgia is like a narrow ticket, with me on this end and the bride on the other.
Later, homesickness was like a short grave. I was outside and my mother was inside.
Now, homesickness is like a shallow strait, with me at this end and the mainland at the other end.
Extended information:
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.
"Nostalgia" is a phenomenal work. The emergence of a phenomenal work is often due to its artistic approach that skillfully touches people's hearts, or opens up a memory, or opens up A narrative.
The popularity of "Nostalgia" also has this logic. Yu Guangzhong lived in a time when China was undergoing changes unprecedented in thousands of years. For people of that era, displacement was the norm in life. The same is true for Yu Guangzhong. He has been traveling all his life and has traveled to many places. But no matter how far he travels or how many places he travels, he has only one hometown and his nostalgia will always be there.
Nostalgia is both concrete and abstract. Nostalgia is both material and spiritual. It is precisely because of this that nostalgia always lingers in people's hearts. As a poem, "Nostalgia" certainly has its ingenious expressions, but the most important thing is that it builds a bridge through ingenious expressions and reaches the depths of people's hearts.
It is precisely because of the universal nostalgia in people's hearts that the poem "Nostalgia" touches so many people. Past life experiences have developed and enriched the nostalgia in Yu Guang, but if possible, no one would want to have such an experience.
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