Su Shi's poetry works have distinct artistic characteristics.
First of all, his poems mostly use figurative rhetoric. The metaphor in his poetry works is not limited by time and space, not rigidly bound by the theme of poetry, not bound by genre, and has certain universality. In the process of his extensive use of metaphor, he also showed the diversity of forms, including simile, metaphor and metonymy. In addition, his rhetorical devices of metaphor are very appropriate, accurate and reasonable, just right, or changeable, or alert, or fresh and strange, which has a strong artistic expression effect.
Secondly, Su Shi's poetry works mostly use dual rhetoric. This feature is reflected in almost all his works, in poems with different genres, different themes and different writing techniques. His antithesis techniques also include different forms of money pair, work pair, running pair and clever equivalence, and he has a good control over people and things, time and space, ideals and reality. The antithesis beauty of Su Shi's poems is also influenced by China's traditional culture, which is not only concise, neat in form, but also full of philosophical beauty.
Thirdly, the title of Su Shi's poems is unique. Among the more than 2,000 poems circulated in later generations, Su Shi used many classic epigraph names, leaving many classic poems with distinctive artistic features. First, he will clearly express the time of poetry creation, making the whole poem more transparent and vivid; Second, he will mark instructions such as "parallel narration" and set suspense in the topic to enhance readability and attractiveness. These unique poetry titles are of great value for us to study and appreciate their works, and are valuable artistic materials for understanding their life experiences and emotional demands. His awareness of cultural inheritance and artistic communication well reflects his own sense of historical responsibility and cultural pride.
Finally, Su Shi's poetry works also make good use of allusions. Almost most poets are good at absorbing nutrition from the works of predecessors, or adapting, quoting or borrowing allusions. Su Shi, on the other hand, is good at using what his predecessors did for his own use, which we call stippling in rhetoric. Renovating the outstanding works of predecessors into new works of art is also a common rhetorical device. Su Shi used this device in his poetry works, turning the outstanding works of predecessors into an organic part of his own works, naturally without carving, which played a unique effect of making the finishing point and bringing forth the new.