夏宇的詩難懂嗎？如何從觀念遊戲中欣賞她的寫作策略，從內涵分析中欣賞她意象的深度？雖然她的詩，可供性別意識探索，但她不是激進的女性主義者，毋寧更近乎巴什拉(Gaston Bachelard)所謂的夢想詩人。從夏宇詩的形象思維，可以看出她有能力鍛鍊語言，解放意識束縛，追求不受監督的詩意；以夢想為試帖，在一些平凡事物上，凝聚情感、回憶，構造出一個充滿想像力的客觀世界。所謂「夢想」，是一種寧靜的陶醉，帶身頁我們逃離社會性的時間。夏宇詩難以表述的魅力，即源、自於這種陰性的深層的寧靜之境。本文借用巴什拉〈夢想詩學〉的故示，導讀難以表述的夏宇

Is Hsia Yu's poetry difficult to comprehend? How are we to appreciate her writing strategies from her play of ideas; or to enjoy the rich layers of her poetic imageries through an analysis of the wordings in detail? Al though her poetry provides a ground for discussions on gender consciousness, she is by no means an extremist of feminism. Rather, she fits much closely Gaston Bachelard's (1884-1962) notion of a poet of the reverie. Based on Hsia Yu's imagery-oriented thinking method , we could perceive her capability to temper and to shape the language, to unbind the consciousness from whatever restraint in existence , and to pursue poetic imaginations free of any surveillance. With the help of reverie as a catalyst to congeal emotions and memories, and using some simple , day-to-day happenings as a foundation, she has built an objective world full of powerfuI conception. By reverie, we mean a tranquil state of abstracted musing, of absorption , which escorts us away from the mundane time frame. The inexplicable charm of Hsia Yu's poetry springs rightly from this feminine, deep and serene domain. This essay on Hsia Yu's enigmatic poetry is founded primarily upon Gaston Bachelard's theories in his inspiring book ＜The Poetics of Reverie ＞, published in 1960