"Because of the political fissure and cultural habits in the Japanese occupation era, a counter-directional method of expression was even more prevalent. In Taiwan there were more than 200 poetry associations, and numerous poetry-and-drinking competitions."
「日據時由於政治的斷裂和文化的習慣性，以一種反彈的方式表現的更為昌盛，全台詩社兩百餘，詩酒競逐，多見滄桑，」南方朔寫道。