However, our conclusions would be much more evenhanded if we flick away the floating dust of politics, and look at Liu Yong and his Ci poetry more mildly from a literary point of view.

• 但如果拂去政治的浮尘，较为平和地侧重以文学的眼光去看待柳永、权衡柳词，得出的结论就会比较地趋于公允。