余光中是台灣現代詩壇的祭酒。他的詩題材廣闊，風格多變，情詩的產量不算多也算少。大致說來，年輕時代較豐富，近期則如鳳毛麟角矣。他的情詩，可約略分為七型：一、身體之歌二、惆悵之歌三、辯証法之歌四、等待之歌五、床笫之歌六、遙想之歌七、為歌而歌。

Yu Guang-zhong is the top figure in the modern Taiwan poetry world. The subjects of his poems are broad and the styles are varied. His love poems are not many and not very few either. Generally speaking, the quantities are abundant in young times, and much fewer in recent times. His poems can roughly divide into seven styles： 1、 Songs of body. 2、 Songs of disconcertion. 3. Songs of dialectics. 4. Songs of waiting. 5.Songs of bed board. 6.Songs of remote thought. 7.Songs for singing.