Poetry and parallel prose are the two main forms of literature in the Southern Dynasties. In the early Liu Song Dynasty, the most prominent writer was Bao Zhao. The style of his Yuefu poems is strong and unrestrained, full of resentment and injustice, which is very different from other works of the Southern Dynasty. Xie Lingyun is an excellent poet. Landscape poems, which are rooted in the matrix of metaphysical poetry, appear in large numbers in his works, sweeping away the suffocating and dull atmosphere in the poetry world of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This theme also entered parallel prose, producing many exquisite and fresh works. The style of deliberately pursuing formal beauty, laying out diction, and listing allusions has developed in the works of Xie Lingyun and Yan Yanzhi, starting the trend of "Ding Ming Dynasty and Taishi Zhong, articles are almost the same as written copies" ("Preface to Poems"). As far as Qiliang, the theme of landscapes has expanded to include various objects in nature and daily life. In the Liang Dynasty, palace-style poetry appeared again. In terms of art, it paid more attention to the selection of tones, colors, and number of canonical pairs. In addition, the rhythm of the poems gradually took shape, so the works became more regular and beautiful. The more outstanding writers include Xie, Shen Yue, Jiang Yan, He Xun, and Wu Jun. Although their excellent works are not out of touch, they give people a fresh and bright feeling. The development of parallel prose and fu corresponds to poetry, but because the application scope of prose is wider than poetry, in addition to the common themes in poetry, we can also see the sorrow of family and country, the sense of poverty and the irony of the world. From the late Liang Dynasty to the Chen Dynasty, the bad tendencies in the writing style became more and more serious. Only Xu Ling and Yin Keng had some relatively good works by poetry writers.