Tumultuous Reality since mid-90s in Taiwan have ruffled people’s mind. “What are poets for?” becomes an ontological question for those poets and cultivated consciousness of life-sense in writings becomes a required aim for the poet-self. But being concerned with reality doesn’t mean to reduce writings to be works of prosaic petition. Poetry comes to its being through figurative system; therefore, confronted with reality, poetry cannot be degraded into merely teleological outcries. Poets face reality and yet refuse to become its tool. Poets test their creativity by imparting imagination into their living apprehension of the world. On the one hand, the poets have to steer writings away from the course of “discursiveness” to maintain its poetical quality; on the other hand, while avoiding “discursiveness,” they still have to uphold a life force in their dedicated relationship with reality. This paper will examine how the poets visualize the surrounding world with images to reveal figuratively the concept of country and home, the political and economic states, the racial conflicts, the cultural and historical propensities, and the living space of the present time.
