In response, the "Blue Star Poetry Society," formed in 1954, opposed transplanting modern Western poetry to Chinese soil, and was inclined to stick with traditional poetry-as-emotion.
雖然當時也有詩人反對這種橫向移植西方思潮的走勢，像一九五四年成立的「藍星詩社」就認為中國和歐洲文化大不相同，何必追隨別人，而傾向維持抒情的傳統詩風，二大派各不相讓，掀起了現代詩的大論戰。