Wang wrote, "Yu Kwang-chung's language takes Western elements (via translation), classical elements (classical Chinese literary language), and local elements (dialect) and smelts them into an alloy with a flexible syntax that is sometimes clipped and sometimes expansive and maintains a galloping style with imagery and rhythm that break new ground rather than uphold tradition."
他說：「他（余光中）的語言，把歐化（翻譯）、古化（文言）、土方（方言）三者鎔鑄為新的合金，句法伸縮疏密間貫以奔騰的文氣，前所未見，講意象講節奏，也似乎開來多於繼往。」