Han Yu had the ability to leap beyond the elegant beauty of Tang poetry with its grandeur and carefree attitude, and instead could write the "unbeautiful" into his poems, analyzing scenery, making inferences, creating delight in the bizarre and the droll in a very modern way.
包括之後的宋詩，也因為韓愈而跳脫唐詩的秀美、雄渾與瀟灑，將不美的事物寫入詩中，對景象加以分析、推理，形成一種怪誕、滑稽的趣味，猶如現代詩一般。