Second, because the members of these societies don't have a high level of education, the clubs are very much a part of local Taiwanese culture--virtual reflections of common Taiwanese society. "These poetry societies were not established in the modern academic era, and so they are representative of local temple fair society," Chien says.
二來它又是「很台灣鄉土的」，因為詩社成員的學經歷不高，幾乎是台灣庶民結構的縮影；「詩社的存在不是建立在現代學術之上，因而更像是鄉土廟會的類型。」