This philosophical poem of the 1920s was translated by Zhou Zuoren in Japan.

Japanese poetry.

I hope that China's poems can learn from the essence of Japanese poetry, and that China's new poems can get rid of the predicament of creation. Unfortunately, this kind of implicit and far-reaching poetry has never appeared in China. The influence of Japanese poetry on China's poetry circle is only a formal reference.

Zhou Zuoren translated and introduced many Japanese poems. He mobilized the rich expressive functions of modern spoken English and effectively conveyed the phonology of Japanese short poems.