Li Shangyin created a large number of immortal excellent poems with his amazing talent and unique artistic style. His language is extremely gorgeous, but it is not redundant at all. His language is concise, and often a few words can make readers fall into a beautiful and lingering feeling. Shen's evaluation of Li Shangyin's poetry in A Glance at Yuxi Poetry is accurate: "The style of the work can be unique, and its author is elegant, exquisite, profound, subtle and delicate."
Perhaps Li Shangyin's poems give readers the impression that most of them are sentimental, euphemistic and mainly about love. Perhaps the main source of this impression is that his untitled poems are so famous that readers ignore his poetic achievements on other themes.
Li Shangyin's artistic style had an important influence on graceful words and graceful schools in the late Tang and Song Dynasties. Graceful school inherited Li Shangyin's creative style to a great extent, and the shadow of Li Shangyin's poems can be found in many graceful poems in later generations.
He occupies an important position in the history of poetry and is called "Little Du Li" with Du Mu.