In the 1960s, he created many works, such as Charm of Xiamen, Country Avenue, Green Curtain of Jujube Trees in Sugarcane Forest, Green Curtain of Sugarcane Forest, Toast, Going Out to Yangguan in the West and so on, and formed his own profound artistic style.
During the Cultural Revolution, his works Autumn in Tuanbowa, Birthday and Qiu Ge were full of hidden worries and deep sad feelings.
The overall characteristics of Guo Xiaochuan's poems are: bright era glory, shining with the spark of philosophy.
He Jingzhi once commented that Guo Xiaochuan's poems were "songs from the heart of a loyal soldier who struggled for the cause of the motherland and the people all his life". Whether celebrating the birth of New China or depicting the vigorous picture of socialist construction, his poems are full of sincere revolutionary passion, which is the soul of his poems.
Guo Xiaochuan is also good at condensing his careful observation of life and things into philosophical themes, which makes many of his poems profound and thought-provoking.
In artistic expression, he creatively inherited the tradition of ancient poetry and made various attempts in the format of poetry. Stepped style, free style and new style are freely used in his poems.