〔溫柔之必要，肯定之必要，一點點酒和木樨花之必要，正正經經看一名女子走過之必要，君非海明威此一起碼認識之必要〕瘂弦，寫詩12年，發表了90幾首，在最巔峰之時選擇停筆；他的集大成詩集《瘂弦詩集》，證明了詩的質比量重要。《他們在島嶼寫作》系列第二部曲導演陳懷恩，在詩的照耀下與瘂弦光陰裡漫步，拍攝團隊遠赴他的出生地河南南陽，還有現居地溫哥華追 尋這位詩人少年離家、來台創辦詩刊《創世紀》、以及長達21年的《聯合報》副刊主編生涯，晚年退居學府集中詩史和詩學研究，還打開了他與蔣勳、吳晟、席慕蓉、林懷民等詩壇摰友和後生晚輩的互動，《如歌的行板》記錄他充滿詩意的一生。

In 2011, director En Chen documented poet Yu Kuang-Chung for the first installment of “The Inspired Island” series on eminent writers. For the second installment, he directs his camera to poet and editor Ya Hsien, tracing the literary giant’s footsteps from his birthplace of Nanyang, Henan, to his home in Vancouver, from the mobile library of his childhood to his current basement holding six decades of books and memories. Part of the vanguard of Taiwan’s modern poetry movement in the sixties, Ya Hsien influenced multiple generations of writers over a 60-year career that intertwines with the social and political changes of his time.