Winter written by Meng Lang 1985 is an accurate description of the relationship between poetry itself and the times, which embodies the simplicity and clarity of the poet's early poetry style.
Dating back to the middle and late1980s, Meng Lang spent his time in a crazy poetic atmosphere, and his writing process was accompanied by the decline of the whole third generation poetry movement from climax to end. In this era, the poet is not too lost. After all, one era is over, and another era of personalized writing is coming. In the early 1990s, the poet responded to the new era in his travel notes, leaving many excellent poems. Especially in 1993, most China poets faced the dilemma of being abandoned by the times. At this turning point, Meng Lang went to Brown University as a resident writer. For a pure poet, the change of identity is just a kind of redemption. This way saved the embarrassing situation faced by the poet and allowed him to continue his interrupted poetry writing and expand it. Meng Lang, who has lived abroad for more than ten years, has not been contaminated with an exotic temperament in his creation, but has artistically integrated modernity with personal experience, showing the cultural stand and tradition of the East. This is a rare insistence of many China poets who have drifted overseas. Xu Jingya, a poetry critic, once made a pioneering evaluation of Meng Lang's poems in passionate language, and his vivid exposition almost reached the truth inside the poems: "For more than 20 years, Meng Lang's poems have always revealed an intellectual feeling of saving the whole world. In the chronicle of China's modern poetry, Meng Lang feels sharper, lighter and sharper. The needles in his poems are thinner, sharper and closer to darkness and blood. Meng Lang created an abstract, progressive and constantly strengthening sense of language, which directly poked the pain points of human beings. " This is Xu Jingya's overall evaluation of Meng Lang's poetry creation for more than 20 years. In fact, Meng Lang's creation is also divided into stages, and each writing stage presents a different look. For example, his early poems pay attention to concise style, not only the language is clean and pure, but also the images are not complicated, showing a free and simple form.