His main works include Poetry and Truth, Meeting Germans, Political Poetry, Lessons, Free Talk, etc. He is an important lyric poet in France in the 20th century and one of the founders of the surrealist movement. His poems are simple and natural, with bright rhythm, concise and unpretentious. They are completely true feelings, or like "natural running water" or "rough waves" His poems either give people the enjoyment of beauty and comfort the soul, or give people the hope of survival and the encouragement of fighting. It can be said that on the whole, his poems are optimistic and lively, and have nothing to do with moaning, narcissism and negative decadence.