Chou's work from the Goddess Incarnate period "is imbued with feeling, shot through with Buddhism, and even more exceptional." Tseng uses the line "withered into a stone, tears exhausted, weeping blood," from "Red Dragonfly" to show that while the poet may seem unfeeling and indifferent, he is in fact caught up in tragic emotions and suffering.
《還魂草》時期的周公詩作，「有情、有禪，且更為孤絕」，曾進豐以〈紅蜻蜓〉詩句「苦成一部淚盡而繼之以血的石頭記」形容詩人看似無情、忘情，實則苦陷於情的悲劇感。