Because the time has changed. It's not that there are no poets more talented than Wang Guozhen, but that there is no more fertile ground for him.
Wang Guozhen became a poet in the mid-1980s. At that time, the reform and opening up had just taken place, and the Chinese people were positive and enterprising. At the same time, people's cultural entertainment was not as rich as it is today, and the relative attention to literature was relatively high, which is why Wang Guozhen became famous for his poetry.
Nowadays, the rich and colorful entertainment has been so overwhelming that people have become aesthetically fatigued, just as the attention to Wang Guozhen's poetry has dropped a lot in the past few years. People's attention has now shifted to celebrities, square dancing, crossing, meat, computers, games, karaoke and even drugs, to name a few. Chinese people no longer have the mellow and simple, conscientious and positive spirit of the eighties, replaced by the sound and color, materialism, negative decadence, impatience, and quick success.
Poetry is an elegant art, the creator should have elegant thoughts, and appreciate the elegant interest. It can be said that now there is a lack of soil to create poets, there is no appreciation of the elegant atmosphere, so that within ten years, there is no hope that a poet with a high reputation will appear again.