Yu Xiuhua's Poetic Style

There are many love poems in Yu Xiuhua's poems. As a woman who has lived at the bottom of society for a long time and is physically disabled, she has a deep understanding of the lack of love. Her love poems are not satisfied with the poetic presentation of love desire, but try to show the rich, complex and distinctive female subject image.

The female lyricist in her poems is a "fool" and a "sick man" wandering in the mirror with a deep sense of inferiority (meeting a mirror), and also a narcissist who is extremely lofty and proud and loves her rust spots more than "you" (love me). When you are thirsty, you are a devotee who is willing to sacrifice you with the blood of youth (face to face), and an escapee who decides to throw away human affairs and regain "bone clearing" (firewood in the field). It is lonely people who let the cold flame of love light up the deep scars and then put them out ("trembling"), and it is spoony people who will "love their loved ones again and hurt them again" if they go back to the past ("people reach middle age").

Her poems are full of complex meanings, such as the agitation and call of love, the disillusionment and realization of love, etc. Love is not so much the theme of her poems as the core proposition that causes the poet to ask metaphysical questions such as existence, truth and death.