The scene was northern China, the language spontaneous and sometimes colloquial, and the mood ranging from nostalgia to humor. This was followed by impressionistic pieces on foreign lands, such as Paris and London, which coincided with the period of exoticism in the late fifties but are unmistakably individual because of their dramatic rather than merely lyrical treatment.
在他的詩集「深淵」裡，作品風格有明顯的轉變。他先從中國北方民謠出發，語言直接且自然，而後轉型到西方的印象主義，其詩因具有戲劇性，仍保有個人的風格。