This paper focuses on the everyday writing in Xiao Kai-yu's poetry, and how his poems dialogue with reality and even achieve self-reflection. The first part of the paper begins with the question of poetry in the 1990s, exploring the doubts about the usefulness of poetry and the obscured reality reflected in poetry, and re-examining the categorization of everyday writing and identity theory. The second part explores the everyday writing in Xiao Kai-yu's poems, exploring the strange and strange in the everyday, the multi-layered psychological expressions, and the reflection on the nature of life. The third part explores the dialectical relationship between the individual and the collective reality in Xiao Kai-yu's poems, how to intervene in the reality, and how to push back the self to reconnoitre and examine the subject.