從「送別詩」的定義看，劉禹錫〈送僧詩二十四首〉，應該屬 於此類，大多數的研究者，在寫「送別詩」的主題時，不會提到 劉禹錫的〈送僧詩二十四首〉，認為其藝術價值不高；而寫劉禹錫 與佛教的關係時，又多以其詩前的「引言」為主，或引一、二詩 句作為旁證，鮮少以此「組詩」作為研究的重點，然黃徹（鞏溪 詩話》卷七評論説：「夢得〈送僧君素〉云：『去來皆是道，此別 不銷魂。』東坡云：『古今正自同，歲月何必書。』此等語通徹無 礙，釋氏所謂具眼也。」

Many poets wrote poems to say goodbye to their loved ones, and Yuxi Liu，s the poems given to 24 departing Buddhist masters should be placed under this category. However, talking about the goodbye poems, the researchers seldom pick Yuxi Liu’s poems and they didn’t regard his poems highly. When relating Yuxi Liu to Buddhism, the researchers only chose the beginning portion of his poem or pick at most two verses，and they rarely selected his entire poem for study. Che Huang pointed out in the chapter seven of his Cricket Creek Poetry that two poets often wrote their poems citing the essence of Buddhism，which were quite different from the ways employed by other poets. One of the poets was Yuxi Liu, who put down “everything comes and goes and this parting is no exception” in his poem given to Master Jun Su. Another one was Dongpo Su who wrote “this moment is no different from the past, so why bother talking so much?”