The change in government had compelled these poets of the previous generation to abandon the Japanese language in which they were so adept, and make their stumbling way in Mandarin, feeling their way through its different poetic rhythms and structures like newborns.
因為政權移轉，這些前輩詩人被迫棄絕原已嫻熟的日本語，轉而重新牙牙學國語、寫漢文（中文），重頭摸索詩的聲韻和結構。