Li Jinfa's poems are good at using metaphors and personification to express complex and subtle situations. These techniques are different from other new poems. They widen the distance between aesthetic images and broaden the world of thinking and imagination, which is a beneficial attempt to construct lyric art of new poetry.
However, Li Jinfa's poetry is deeply influenced by western aestheticism, and decadence and mystery, obscurity and obscurity, sentimentality and pathos are intertwined in his poetry style. Sometimes, because of "knowing nothing about foreign countries", some poems are obscure and lose their aesthetic value.
Since Huang was called a "strange poet" in Aesthetic Education magazine 1925, there have been different opinions on him in literary circles. Some people praised him as "the pioneer of China symbolist poets", while others denounced his poems as "not fluent".
Li Jinfa has this explanation in the introduction of the poetry collection "Slight Rain" (listening to his analysis is more helpful to evaluate his poems): "Like all people, I try my best to make a preface to explain what principles I use to write poems, which is unnecessary. I think readers will get different feelings in this episode-or most of them are bad-and I hope I can severely criticize them. " Or how many people are dissatisfied, if you can explain everything. "
However, the artistic quality of Li Jinfa's poems is undoubtedly a unique contribution to the improvement of China's new poetry artistic skills and readers' appreciation ability.