Lu You's poems can be roughly divided into three categories.

The following three categories:

Expressing political ambitions, reflecting people's sufferings, criticizing the humiliation and surrender of the ruling group at that time, and showing a strong patriotic enthusiasm for restoring national unity. Guan Shanyue, The Storm on the 4th of November, Book Wrath, Xiuer, Travel Notes of Shanxi Village, Spring Rain Beginning in Lin 'an, Reading on a Winter Night, Xiuer, etc. It's all spoken by later generations.

There are many fresh works describing daily life. Also known as Gong Ci, Yang Shen called it as beautiful as Qin Guan and as beautiful as stone. But some poems reveal negative emotions. He married the Tang family for the first time and divorced under the pressure of his mother. His pain is poured out in some poems, such as Shen Yuan and Hairpin Phoenix, which are sincere and touching.

There are also Poems of Jiannan, Collected Works of Weinan, Book of Southern Tang Dynasty, Notes of Laoxue Temple, Love and Resentment, etc.