归有光的作品情感内容丰富，文体有别、思绪有异。他注重从日常生活中的小事入手，用最简单无华的文字倾诉出至深至真的情感。在祭文、寿序和碑文等不同系列的作品中，对于所涉及到的任何人物，他都能够运用平实的文字讲述出各异的内心之情，情感表达涵盖母亲、妻子、仆人以及儿子等不同身份的对象。在文字之下又处处透露着他一生中得到与失去的离别之苦，情感悲痛便成为他的主要情感内核，使文章中情感的表达不显山露水却字字珠玑。

GUI Youguang's works are rich in emotional content, different in style and thoughts. He pays attention to the small things in daily life, with the most simple and unadorned words to pour out the deepest and true feelings. In the different series of works, such as sacrificial texts, life preambles and inscriptions, he can use plain words to tell different inner feelings for any figure involved, including the emotional expression of different identities of the object such as mother, wife, servant and son. Under the words and everywhere revealed his life to gain and lose the bitterness of separation, emotional grief has become his main emotional core, so that the expression of emotion in the article is not obvious but every word is beautiful.