Why did poets after the Vijftigers adopt a more restrained and prose-like style?

In Dutch literature, the poets who followed the Vijftigers (the "Men of the Fifties") adopted a more restrained and "prosy" style as a direct reaction against the experimentalism of their predecessors.1

While the Vijftigers had rejected the reflective lyricism of the interwar years in favor of an experimentalist style—characterized by maximum physicality, minimal punctuation, neologisms, and startling associative imagery—the poets of the following decade, such as J. Bernlef, moved away from this approach. This shift represented a deliberate move toward a low-key, understated aesthetic, prioritizing a more grounded and accessible form of expression over the intense, unconstrained lyricism that had defined the Fifties movement.12