As it is called 'elegies of Yoshino court,' Shinyoshu contains many excellent acute poems which describe indignation at the fate which they could not resist in the considerable decline of the Southern Dynasty.
「吉野朝の悲歌」と称される通り、新葉集では、南朝の衰勢著しい境遇の中で、如何とも挽回しがたい天命への悲憤を込めた、切実な感情の秀歌が目立つ。