Homesickness background information and author introduction!

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.

Yu Guangzhong (192810/October 21-20171February 14) is a famous contemporary writer, poet, scholar and translator. Because my mother was originally from Wujin, Jiangsu, she also called herself "Jiangnan".

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Yu Guangzhong is known as a poet who "shakes hundreds of millions of China people with homesickness poems", and "homesickness" is a theme that he never forgets in many of his poems.

Nostalgia gives a new explanation to an abstract theme, which is difficult to describe, but covered by a lot of descriptions. In terms of images, four common images in life, such as stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits, are selected to give them rich connotations, so that these four previously irrelevant images can be sung repeatedly under the support of homesickness.

Yu Guangzhong himself once said that this poem is "quite realistic": when I was a child, I went to boarding school and had to correspond with my mother; Go to the United States to study after marriage and return to Taiwan Province by boat; Later, my mother died and lost her maternal love forever. The first three sentences of the poem are all about women, and the last sentence thinks of the "big mother" like the mainland of the motherland, so the artistic conception and ideas will be suddenly enlightened, and there will be a sentence "Homesickness is a shallow strait".

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