Liu Yuxi and his poetic style are quite unique. He is resolute and heroic. During his years in exile, he felt heavy psychological depression and sang a lamentation for lonely ministers.
But he never despaired, he has the soul of a fighter; He wrote poems such as "Calling from Langzhou to Beijing Opera in the Ten Years of Yuanhe" as a gift to the gentlemen who look at flowers, revisited Du Xuan Guanluoju, White Snake Singing, Mosquito Gathering, Flying Kites, Hua Tuo Theory, etc., and satirized and attacked political opponents many times.
This led to political repression and attacks again and again, but this repression and attack aroused his stronger resentment and resistance, and strengthened his poetic temperament from different aspects.
He said, "I'm from Shandong, and I've felt a lot in my life" (Zhu Qiao Meets the Zen Master). Liu Yuxi lived in Jiaxing with his father in his early years and often went to Xing Wu to visit Jiao Ran and Che Ling, famous Zen monks and poets in the south of the Yangtze River. According to his "Collected Works of Che Masters", at that time, he "wrote inkstones and accompanied poems, all of which were called obedience". This early experience has a great influence on later poetry creation.
Liu Yuxi's poems, whether short or long, are mostly concise and bright, with handsome style, filled with the wisdom of a philosopher and the sincere feelings of a poet, full of artistic tension and heroic momentum. Such as "the north wind mourns the old horse, and the autumn frost moves the birds." ..... because of the sense of decline, Ann can arouse the heart "(the second part of" Learning Ruan Gong's Three Poems ")," Ma Si changed grass and fists, carving Qingyun sleep.
Another example is his famous poem "Poetry of Autumn", which is an anti-traditional view of lamenting and praising autumn, giving autumn a power to guide life and showing the poet's infinite yearning for the realm of freedom. The chest is extremely high and the bone strength is very strong.
Liu Yuxi believes in Taoism. Many years later, he said that a poet should "in a word, take all kinds of scenery leisurely" (Wuling Ji of Eastern History). The first sentence refers to the conciseness and implication of language, and the second sentence refers to the observation and meditation of the subject.
Therefore, on the one hand, he attaches importance to making the poetic language exquisite and natural through tempering and polishing, and opposes the use of uncommon words. He put forward that "if you want to write poetry with uncommon words, you must have a place ... If the younger generation wants to learn poetry, it is necessary to be well-founded and not lead the way" (Liu Bin Jia Luhua).
On the other hand, he attaches great importance to the observation and meditation of the subject. He once said in "Preface to Poems in Jiangling after Autumn": If you can leave your desire, you will be empty and enter the scene; There must be a leak when entering, it is shaped by words. Because of the situation, it is clear; Words are chosen by wisdom, so the essence is beautiful.