The outside world rushing into the farming villages and Taiwan's changing of focus from agriculture to industry brought worries for the times. This, along with the love of the land and the harvest that he'd always had, led Wu to write a well-received series of poems called Impressions of My Hometown.
就在文明入侵農村，台灣急速由農業轉型為工商社會的衝擊下，諸般「時代變化中的愁緒」，混合長年孕育自土地和作物的愛戀，吳晟點點滴滴醞釀成「吾鄉印象」系列組詩，引起了極大迴響。