Yeh also points out that, while Taiwan poetry and post-1949 mainland Chinese poetry share linguistic and historical roots, they are in many other respects very dissimilar. She avers that the most important difference derives from the interplay of literature and politics.
「除了語言和歷史淵源，台灣現代詩和一九四九年以後中國大陸的現代詩已不盡相同」，奚密認為，其中主要的差別在文學和政治之間的關係。