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This poem mainly uses imagery. There are four symbolic images in the poem: First, the "small stamp", which symbolizes the nostalgia of the author in his youth.

The mother cares about her son, and the son misses his mother. The second is "a narrow ticket", which symbolizes the nostalgic lovers of the author's youth. This is the longing and yearning between young men and women.

The third is "a short grave", which symbolizes the life and death feelings of the author's nostalgia in middle age. This is an unforgettable longing that can only be buried in the bottom of the heart and cannot be transmitted between the two. Although the tomb is only a stone's throw away, it is so far away.

The fourth is "a shallow strait", which symbolizes the nostalgia of the author's homeland in his later years. Although the strait is "shallow", the feelings of the homeland are unfathomable. Moreover, the author's emotions are deep and progressive, and it is far-reaching and long-lasting.

The connotation and realm of the author's "nostalgia" have been continuously deepened and improved with his own maturity and the development of the times, from personal and family affection to patriotic feelings on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This makes "nostalgia" have a distinct color of the times. "Stamps", "Ship Tickets", "Graves", and "Straits" seem to be ordinary, but they contain full poetry

Stamps - Mother and Child Affection (Intense) Ship Ticket - Husband and Wife Love (Warm) Grave - Life and Death Grief (Huge) Strait - Homesickness and Sorrow (Deep).

The poet finds a counterpart to each of the four stages of his life to express nostalgia: the postage stamps of his childhood, the boat tickets of his growing up, and the grave of his later life, and the current strait. Stamps:

When I was a child, I left home to study, and my nostalgia was only through the small stamp to write a letter to my mother to tell my thoughts. Ferry ticket: When I grew up, I was driven by life and went to another country, at this time, in addition to missing my mother, I also increased my longing for my lover, so the wisps of nostalgia were only placed on the boat tickets that went back and forth.

Grave: Whether it is when you are a child or when you grow up, nostalgia has a place to be placed and discharged. Later, the barrier of time and space could no longer be communicated, and a low tomb separated me from my mother, the living and the dead, forever.

Neither stamps nor ship tickets can knock open this small grave, nor can they connect the yin and yang that are blocked. At this point in the poem, the feelings are aggravated, and the tragic atmosphere is stronger, which makes people sigh and sigh. Strait:

And now, that shallow strait not only separates me from my homeland, but also impasses. These four counterparts all show the sorrowful parting of wandering, isolation, and absolute separation.

The stamps represent the letter of contact with the family, the boat ticket represents the journey home, the grave represents the deceased relatives, and the strait represents the isolation of Taiwan from the mainland.

The poet compares nostalgia to "stamps," "ship tickets," "graves."

and "Strait" because different images and objects of affection echo one by one, Si'er's mother, Sifu's bride, the deceased mother, and the mainland of the motherland, through which the poet is conveying the feelings of gradual solemnity and emptiness.

And gradually reveal the far-reaching artistic conception calling for the unification of China. The concrete things that represent wandering, isolation, and farewell are selected to carry the abstract dust judgment and accompany the homesickness that is difficult to capture.

The poet compares nostalgia to "stamps," "ship tickets," "graves."

and "Strait" because different images echo the objects of affection one by one, Si'er's mother, Sifu's bride, the deceased mother, and the mainland of the motherland, and the poet is conveying gradually solemn feelings.

And gradually reveal the far-reaching artistic conception calling for the unification of China. The concrete things that represent wandering, isolation, and farewell are selected to carry the abstract nostalgia of homesickness that is difficult to capture.

To express nostalgia is to express one's connection and isolation from one's hometown, so that readers can have a strong contrast in their hearts, so as to be touched. Stamps and ferry tickets are isolated, but they can still be communicated. The grave and the strait are completely isolated, which makes the reader deeply sigh and make the work produce a strong artistic effect.

Because nostalgia is very abstract, using these specific images in different periods can better show what nostalgia is like in different periods, and it is more helpful to understand nostalgia at a specific time.

Stamps, ship tickets, graves, straits, and other four originally unrelated objects, under the maintenance of the specific emotion of nostalgia, repeatedly aria, produce different artistic effects.

The author went to boarding school as a child and had to correspond with his mother, so he used stamps to express nostalgia; After marriage, he went to the United States to study, returned to Taiwan by steamer, and expressed his nostalgia with a ferry ticket; Later, his mother died and lost his mother's love forever, so he used the grave to express his nostalgia, and finally because of political reasons, the Taiwan Strait.

Separate the mainland and Taiwan for a period of time, and use the strait to express greater nostalgia.

1. The nostalgia is compared to a stamp because the author went to boarding school when he was a child and had to correspond with his mother.

2. The nostalgia is compared to a ferry ticket, because the author went to the United States to study after marriage and returned to Taiwan by ship to reunite with his mother.

3. Comparing nostalgia to a grave is because the author's mother died, and the author will never lose his mother's love.

4. The reason why nostalgia is compared to a strait is because the author regards the mainland of the motherland as "the mother of Chongsun", and there is a strait between it and the mainland of the motherland.

Stamps: When I was a child, I left home to study, and I could only write letters to my mother through that small stamp to tell my thoughts.

Ferry ticket: Remembrance of a loved one.

The Grave: Separated me from my mother, the living and the dead, forever.

Strait: Not only did it separate me from my homeland, but it was also insurmountable.

Homesickness" as a child.

Nostalgia is a small stamp.

I'm on this end. Mother is over there.

When I grow up. Nostalgia is a narrow ticket.

I'm shining in this eggplant.

The bride is on that end.

Later, ah. Homesickness is a low grave.

I'm out there. Mother is inside.

And now. Nostalgia is a shallow strait.

I'm on this end. The continent is on that end.

Stamps – Leaving home as a child;

Ferry ticket - parting with your lover;

Grave - the death of a pure relative;

The Strait - sighs the division of the land.

These four things, the author used the overlapping words of "small, narrow, short, shallow" respectively, describing the "small" of these things, although small, but it is difficult to surpass the past, indicating that the author has been nostalgic for his hometown, missing his lover, missing his family, and nostalgic for returning to the motherland since he was a child.

Yu Guangzhong, born on October 21, 1928 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, moved to Taiwan in 1949, this poem was written in the early 70s.