The representative works of Zuo Si's poems include eight poems about history, which can be found in Selected Works. "Ode to History" has been a poem since Ban Gu, and the author's meaning is slightly seen in the retelling of objective facts, while Zuo Si's "Ode to History" is a complex historical fact, integrating ancient and modern, and even quoting classics, "praising the ancients and seeing their own temperament" (Shen Deqian's "Ancient Poetry Source"). Zuo Si had a strong sense of statecraft in his early years, and considered himself a talented person, Gao Xiongzhi. "Being a rich and powerful Hunan, he is determined to be a powerful Hu" (No.1), hoping to make a difference. But under the pressure of the gate valve system, he was always incompetent. In the second poem "Ode to History", he said: "Loose in the bottom of the shady valley, leave seedlings on the mountain. With the artistic image of "one inch in diameter and one hundred feet in shadow", the unreasonable phenomenon of "the world is at a high level and the handsome man is at a low level" is deeply exposed; In the seventh song, he recited the bumpy experience of ancient sages and pointed out with deep sorrow: "There are no strange things in the world, but they stay in the grass. "He made a fierce attack on the dark reality of killing talents, and his sharp writing style was rare in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The poem "Ode to History" also expounds his attitude and ambition in life by praising the ancients, claiming: "Although it is expensive, it is regarded as dust. Although the humble laugh at themselves, it is as heavy as a thousand miles. "Therefore, Zhong Rong, a critic of the Liang Dynasty, said that Zuo Si's" literary canon is rather precise and allegorical "(poem). Describing Tao Yuanming's Zuo Si Feng Zhi also shows that Zuo Si's poems are vigorous and have a legacy of Jian 'an.
On the occasion of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wang Fuzhi once said: "The Three Kingdoms were reduced to the Western Jin Dynasty, with unhealthy writing style and ancient mind. Those who come to our country are in no hurry to return. " (Selected comments on ancient poems) Zhong Rong called Zuo Si's style of chanting epic poems "Zuo Si's style". Zuo Si Li Feng once had an influence on Tao Yuanming. Zuo Si's artistic image of "pine at the bottom of a ravine" was also borrowed by Fan Li in the Southern Dynasty and Wang Bo in the early Tang Dynasty to express his intellectual anguish.
Zuo Si also wrote two poems "Introduction", which were beautifully written. Among them, "there is no need for silk and bamboo, and the mountains and rivers have clear sounds", which is very appreciated by future generations. A poem of a charming girl has simple language and sincere feelings, and the love for her little daughter is vividly on the paper. Tao Yuanming's Responsibility, Du Fu's Northern Expedition and Li Shangyin's Proud Poems were all influenced by it. In addition, he also has a Miscellaneous Poem and two Mourning for Sister. The former is similar in style to epic poems, while the latter is a four-character poem, elegant and dignified.