Research

The Misty Poets created Menglongshi or roughly translated 'obscure poetry'. Menglongshi came into being as a term used to criticize the group by Zhang Ming with a meaning that meant that the poems were obscure and inappropriate. But people such as Ai Quin and Xie Mian defended this new style in their articles as supporters saw a call for individual freedom and humanity which were direct responses to the Cultural Revolution. This group was one of the most controversial in China during the post-Mao era. They were people who were disillusioned by the Cultural Revolution that took place. (Peipei)

As a result the poems show feelings and emotions that a person might feel. In one of Shu Ting's poems titled "Missing You" the feeling of missing someone important was conveyed through the use of simple imagery with something missing. The "equation...with no solution" could is something that has lost its purpose. Unless the problem is theoretical and experimental the whole point of an equation is to provide a solution. Meaning that the narrator feels that the person she misses is very important and the reason for existing. While another poem titled "Assembly Line" comments on the ordered lifestyle with no real freedom that is the way life is in China. It even says "the stars must be exhausted/ after thousands of years/ of journeys which never change". The stars have unimaginably long lives which are unchanging. They repeat the same orbit by following rules just like people who follow orders. But, if these stars that shine brightly in the sky are bored then the lives of the people in China must be very uneventful with repetition. (Ting)