BackgroundModern literary appreciation seems to be reading literary works phenomenally. In fact, appreciation is not a general reading, which has an important difference from general reading. It is the identification and appreciation of literary works and a complex spiritual activity for people to feel, understand, and imagine literary and artistic works. At the same time, literary appreciation is also a cognitive activity, an aesthetic activity, and a re-creation activity.MethodIn this paper, the machine learning algorithm was creatively used to classify the (...) emotions of figures in modern literary works, to analyze the emotions of the figures that the writer wanted to depict in modern literary works.ResultsExperimental results verify the accuracy of the emotion classification method through experiments, which is helpful for us to better understand the emotion expression in modern literary works. (shrink)