When he returned to Taiwan, his dreams of the Chinese "motherland" were dashed, and he was unhappy with authoritarian rule at home. Feeling that poetry was useless, he fell into a deep depression.
返台後，對中國「祖國」的幻滅、對國府高壓統治的不滿，深感詩文無用，吳晟陷入了極端的消沉與無望。