Homesickness is a modern poem written by modern poet Yu Guangzhong in 1972. Through the time series of "when I was a child", "when I grew up", "later" and "now", this poem concretizes the abstract homesickness with stamps, boat tickets, graves and Taiwan Province Strait, summarizes the poet's long life course and lingering homesickness for the motherland, and reveals the poet's profound sense of history. The whole poem has simple language and deep feelings.
This poem was written in 1972. Yu Guangzhong's ancestral home is Yongchun, Fujian. He left the mainland for Taiwan Province Province on 1949. At that time, due to political reasons, Taiwan Province Province was isolated from the mainland for a long time, which prevented Yu Guangzhong from returning to the mainland for many years. He has always missed his loved ones and longed for the reunification of the motherland and the reunion of his loved ones. With strong homesickness, the poet wrote this poem in his former residence in Xiamen Street, Taipei.
Poetry is pure and light in language, simple, frank and meaningful. Use adjectives such as "small", "narrow", "short" and "shallow" to decorate the central image and enhance the vividness of the language.
In terms of artistic style, this poem turns to pursue a calm and harmonious aesthetic style instead of the characteristics of the poet's early "modern period", such as deliberately hammering words and refining sentences, painstakingly managing images and contradictory grammar, pursuing bizarre effects and creating amazing words, and seeking abstinence from obscurity. Replacing complexity with simplicity and winning with lightness are also extremely gorgeous and belong to blandness.