What is traditional in Yu Guangzhong’s poetry? Taking nostalgia as an example

"Nostalgia" Nostalgia is the feeling and longing for hometown. The attachment to one's homeland is the most common and eternal human emotion. Wanderers, drifters, vagabonds, and immigrants who are far away from their hometown, who doesn’t miss their hometown? Nostalgia is one of the themes written by literati. It can be found in the poems of Yu Guangzhong, Bei Shi and Xi Murong, in San Mao's articles, and in the sound of piano prince Richard Clayderman. It is also the title of the movie. There are many good sentences describing homesickness throughout the ages, and the most classic one is undoubtedly the poem by Li Bai, a poet from the Tang Dynasty: "There is bright moonlight in front of my bed, I suspect it is frost on the ground. I look up at the bright moon, and I lower my head to miss my hometown." The full text of Yu Guangzhong's poem "Nostalgia"

Nostalgia

"Nostalgia"

Yu Guangzhong

When I was a child

Nostalgia is A small stamp

I am here

My mother is there

When I grow up

Nostalgia is a narrow page Narrow ticket

I am on this end

The bride is on the other end

Later

Nostalgia is a short grave

I am outside

My mother is inside

And now

Nostalgia is a shallow strait

I am at this end

The mainland is at that end

Poetry Commentary

The poem is deeply emotional, longing for the reunification of the motherland, and vividly describing nostalgia .Just like many rivers in China are the Yellow River

"Nostalgia" is like the tributaries of the Yangtze River. Although Yu Guangzhong lives on an island, as a Chinese poet who loves his motherland and its cultural traditions, his nostalgia The poem inherits the national sentiment tradition in my country's classical poetry from the inner emotional level, and has a profound sense of history and nationality. At the same time, the long-term artificial isolation between Taiwan and the mainland and the homesickness of millions of people drifting to isolated islands objectively reflect the It has a specific and vast content that is unmatched by the nostalgia of any previous era. As a contemporary poet who has been away from the mainland for more than thirty years, Yu Guangzhong's works will inevitably bear a profound mark of the times. The poem "Nostalgia" focuses on personal experiences in mainland China. A stamp in his youth, a boat ticket in his youth, and even a grave in the future all embody the poet's long memories of thousands of overseas wanderers. Thoughts of hometown, and all this reaches a new level at the end of the poem: "And now / homesickness is a shallow strait / I am at this end / the mainland is at the other end." It's like hundreds of rivers running towards the East China Sea, like Thousands of peaks are heading towards Mount Tai. The poet's personal joys and sorrows are blended with the great love for the motherland and the nation. The poet's personal experience is also more provocative and melancholy because of the burning emotions at the end, just as the poet himself said Said: "The vertical sense of history, the horizontal sense of region. The intersection of vertical and horizontal forms the sense of reality at the crossroads." (Preface to "White Jade Bitter Melon") In this way, the poet's "Nostalgia" is the traditional nostalgia poem of our country in the new era and The variations under special geographical conditions have a breadth and depth unmatched by previous nostalgia poems. Mr. Yu Guangzhong loves traditional Chinese culture and China. Praise "China, the most beautiful and motherly country". He said: "The upper reaches of blue ink is the Miluo River", "I want to be the descendant of Qu Yuan and Li Bai", "There is a tributary of the Yellow River in my bloodline".

Beauty Tracking

In terms of capturing and refining the imagery, this poem has a simple and rich beauty. Nostalgia is an emotion that is commonly experienced by everyone but difficult to capture. If we cannot find a corresponding unique and beautiful image to express it, it will either become generalized and mediocre, or fall into abstraction and emptiness. "Nostalgia" extracts four images from the vast time and space: stamps, ship tickets, graves, and straits. They are simple, and the so-called simplicity is by no means simple, but clear, concentrated, and intense, without the sense of rambling and confusing meaning; they are also rich, and the so-called rich is by no means piled up, but It's implicit. It has tension and can induce many associations in readers. In terms of the combination of images, "Nostalgia" uses the development of time to synthesize images, which can be called image progression. "When I was a child", "when I grew up", "later" and "now", this time sequence runs through the whole poem like a red line, summarizing the poet's long life course and his longing for the motherland. The first three stanzas of the poem Like the surging waves, in the end it suddenly merged into the nine-level wave of the whole poem.

The formal beauty of "Nostalgia" is also eye-catching. Its formal beauty is expressed as structural beauty and musical beauty.

"Nostalgia" and "Nostalgia" structurally show the beauty of change and tradition. Unification means being relatively balanced and well-proportioned; paragraphs and sentence patterns are relatively neat, and paragraphs and sentences are relatively harmonious and symmetrical. Change means avoiding uniformity to the extreme, and pursuing the lively, flowing and vibrant beauty. Section 4 of "Nostalgia". Each stanza has four lines, and the stanzas are quite balanced and symmetrical. However, the poet paid attention to the changes and adjustments in long and short sentences, so that the poem's appearance is neat but has uneven beauty. The musical beauty of "Nostalgia" is mainly reflected in the beautiful melody that goes back and forth and sighs three times in one song. Among them, "Nostalgia is -" and "At this end...over there (over)" are repeated four times, plus four The use of overlapping words such as "small", "narrow", "short" and "shallow" in the same position in the paragraph makes the whole poem low-key and suppressive, like a complaint.