2. Ouyang Xiu's poetic achievements are not as good as prose, but they are also very distinctive. Many of his poems reflect people's sufferings and expose the darkness of society. He also discusses current affairs in his poems and attacks corrupt politics. But he wrote more and more successful poems to express his personal feelings and scenery. His poems are mainly influenced by Han Yu in art, and in general, their styles are diverse. Ouyang Xiu is also good at poetry. In Preface to Mei Poetry, he put forward the idea that poetry should be written after poverty, which developed the poetic theories of Du Fu and Bai Juyi and had a great influence on the poetic creation at that time and later generations. His Poems on June 1st is the first poem in the history of China literature. It comments on poetry in a casual and intimate way and becomes a new form of poetry conversation.
3. Ouyang Xiu's poems have two characteristics, one is to write poems, and the other is to discuss poems. The most wonderful thing in Ouyang Xiu's poems is his short stories with modern style. The language of this kind of poetry is simple, natural and cordial, and its meaning is smooth and coherent, which has a pioneering role in establishing the natural poetic style in Song Dynasty.