Abstract
Taiwanese poet Ye Qing (1979-2011) has several identities: poets, lesbians, bipolar disorder, a suicide, etc., whose poems are regarded as her most real performance and her two published collection of poems, ＂Next Life More Decisions＂ and ＂Rain directly into the Eyes＂, reveals two strong core qualities, love and depression. American Expatriate Writer Chai (1987-) published a collection of poems ＂a Necessary Explanation＂ and a novel ＂Collective Heartbreak Diary＂, with the former one depicting her life as a lesbian in Seattle, and the latter one is a novel, describing the stories of love, desire and social movement, disclosing the subversion of the mainstream images of Chinese immigrants and lesbian identity shaped by the mass media. Since Ye and Chai had grown up in different countries and lived in different social atmosphere, their works have resulted in great emotional differences. Ye Qing describes a lot about loss, depression and sadness, and her poems express a strong disease confession and self-treatment meanings; while Chai examines and discloses the images of extreme young people grown up in the discriminating system in America. This article intends to process the works of the two writers, comparatively analysis what are the emotional differences in their writings based on their lesbians and respective living experience in Taiwan and Seattle communities? In addition, how did the Taiwan traditional lesbian tragic writing which was created by Qiu Miao Jin in the 1990s has affected the two new generation writers?