Mu Dan?s poems can be divided into two categories: one directly faces the social reality with the original apprearances of the images, and the other examines the transformed conception of the images.

• 穆旦诗按意象的表现方式可以分为两大类,一类是直面历史现实,以意象的原生状态实行着线性的连缀,直接歌唱时代; 一类是以意象的变体为喻体,跳跃式呈现,形成一种内敛而自问的抒情向度,解剖自我。