On Li Yu's Poems

Li Yu's name has been associated with his Ci poems, but the study on his poems has long been a blank. By collecting and compiling all his poems and segments from poems survived, it can be discovered by analyzing the style and expressiveness of Li Yu's poems in thinking and in artistic features that the achievements of his poems are no less than his Ci poems. Li Yu's poems are the reflection of his philosophy. By expressing his real natural disposition, the poems depict details to reflect the whole, in few words but with profound feelings, speaking about abstract things but on reality, there are rich emotions expressed in narration with strong artistic force.