The writing background of Yu Guangzhong's Homesickness is that Yu Guangzhong left the mainland for Taiwan Province in 1949. At that time, due to political reasons, Taiwan Province was isolated from the mainland for a long time, which caused Yu Guangzhong not to return 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. In a strong homesickness, the poet wrote this poem in his former residence in Xiamen Street, Taipei in 1972.

Appreciation of Works

Homesickness is one of Yu Guangzhong's poems, White Jade and Bitter Melon, and it is also a classic of Yu Guangzhong's expression of homesickness with folk songs, four rhymes of homesickness and Luo Erwazi.

Poetry is pure and light in language, simple, truthful and meaningful. Reduplicated adjectives such as "small", "narrow", "short" and "shallow" are used to modify the central image and enhance the vividness of the language.

In terms of artistic style, this poem goes against the poet's early "modern period" characteristics of deliberately hammering words and refining sentences, painstakingly managing images and contradictory grammar, pursuing the effect of strangeness to make amazing words, and seeking abstinence in obscurity, and instead pursues a quiet and harmonious aesthetic style. Replacing complexity with simplicity, winning with lightness, is also extremely gorgeous, and it belongs to dullness.