If one must classify the writings of these foreign workers, they belong to a sort of "people's poetry" a la Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet: Poetry based on the lives and circumstances of the author. In fact, this is also very much in the tradition of China's ancient Book of Odes.
鍾喬認為，如果真要對外勞的文學形式做一個歸類，應該是屬於智利詩人聶魯達式的「民眾詩」：技巧多隱喻，以生命思考做出發，其實也更接近中國《詩經》的民間詩歌模式。