詩壇中一向定論商禽乃台灣「超現實」詩人。本文卻借詩人的反向說法：「『超現實』是『更現實』之意」，一直追蹤商禽出奇的神思後面種種不自覺繼承傳統的事實，與乎比別詩人更其平民化的實戚。本文耙梳商禽詩的各種線索，包括興發觸動的來源、全面視境的努力、現代性與生活性之堅持，誠意與必要的美學發掘。文內且將商禽與瘟弦、管管、周夢蝶三人比較，盡量在傳統的縱切函，與六○年代台灣詩壇的橫切面，雙向說明商禽詩的價值

On the Taiwanese poetry, Shang-Gin is always defined as a ＂surrealist＂. According to the poet's own expression , ＂surrealistic means super-realistic＂, This article reveals an opposite discourse: the vigorous inspiration of poet derives consciously or subconsciously from a realism of tradition and it is more civilians than the other poets. The essay clariflies those elements which consist in the imaginative world of Shang-Gin : source of emotion , effort for ＂whole-vision＂, insisting on modernity and commonalty, esthetics of excavating in sincerity. Through a comparison with the poetry Ya-Xuan, Guan-Guan and Zhou Meng-dia, the value of Shang-Gin will be observed from two cortrary sections: vertical heritage of tradition and horizontal sights of the poetry in sixtieth ages of Taiwan