First, the ideological content of Li Bai's poems
Li Bai's realistic literary thought comes from the spirit of Historical Records, which is manifested in the pursuit of authenticity, realistic style and skills, and its embodiment in his works varies from style to style. Prose examples prove that painting praises return to reality and poetry is like reality. It is a supplement to Li Bai's romantic literary thought.
1. eulogize ideals and express grief and indignation. Li Bai lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He is brave and fearless, and loves the mountains and rivers of the motherland. He traveled all over the country and wrote magnificent poems praising famous mountains and rivers. Li Bai prides himself on being a talented person who doesn't know the world. He prides himself on the achievement of "making the Atlas area big and the sea and the county clear", and has always pursued the ideal of helping the poor and ensuring peace throughout his life. He compared himself with Dapeng, Tianma and Xiong Jian: "Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars in Wan Li. If the wind stops, it can still lift away the raging water. " ("Li Shangyong").
2. Despise the strong and pursue freedom
He felt that relying on his own talents, he could "go out safely and make friends with the princes, be defeated and escape from the bird's nest" ("Preface to Sending Swallow Garden to Play the Hidden Fairy City Mountain"). He cast a strong contempt for those powerful people who enjoy high positions and high salaries by virtue of family relations, showing a proud and unyielding character. He despised the feudal hierarchy, was unwilling to flatter, and disdained to rise and fall with customs. The darkness of reality made him disillusioned with the ideal of Li Bai's picture, and he was suffocated by the feudal ethical code hierarchy. He longed for the freedom and liberation of his personality, so he adopted a wild and uninhibited attitude towards life to get rid of the shackles and strive for freedom. Its manifestation is binge drinking and singing, seeking immortality and learning Taoism. But wine can't relieve worries, and the immortal is more ethereal, so he praised the beautiful nature as the ideal sustenance and the embodiment of freedom "according to the unchangeable habit of my life" (Lushan Ballad). Mount Emei, Huashan, Lushan, Taishan, Huangshan, etc. It is majestic in his works, full of clouds and streams; The rushing Yellow River and the surging Yangtze River in his works swept away everything. It shows the poet's indomitable character and strong desire to break the fetters.
3. Expose the reality and attack the current politics
This is Li Bai's angry struggle against society and an important embodiment of his rebellious spirit. He opposed Xuanzong's exultation and belligerence, exposing that he was not a human being, which led to the death of the people in vain. Because of Xuanzong's arrogance, the eunuch's power is hot? Through the analysis of the platform and field observation in Youyan, Li Bai is sensitive as a poet, and he and Du Fu were the first poets to reveal the disaster at that time. When the "An Shi Rebellion" broke out, his patriotic enthusiasm was sublimated and he got rid of the contradiction of using Tibetan resources. His rebellious character and spirit have profound patriotic connotation, social significance and characteristics of the times.
4. Emotional ups and downs, full of contradictions
He has both lofty and vulgar side. His ideal and freedom can only be found in the mountains, in the fairyland and in his hometown where he is drunk and dreaming. Therefore, in his poems such as Into the Wine, Songs on the River, Songs of Xiangyang, etc., he reveals such negative and decadent thoughts as dreaming, eating, drinking, and escaping from reality, which are also representative among upright and upright literati in feudal society. 5. Bold, elegant and bold imagination is the main feature of Li Bai's poems. Poets do not pay much attention to the detailed description and depiction of objective things, but are good at using rich imagination, strange metaphors and bold exaggeration to shape images and vent their emotions; If the images created by things in real life are not enough to express his unique thoughts and feelings and the artistic realm he pursues, he will use myths, legends, fantasies and dreams to express them more, thus creating various shocking aesthetic effects. In addition to the factors of ideological character and talent, the artistic expression and genre structure used in Li Bai's poems are also important reasons for his bold and elegant style. Being good at relying on imagination and being subjective and objective are the important characteristics of romantic artistic techniques in Li Bai's poems. His imagination is extremely rich, almost every article has imagination, and some even use a variety of imagination throughout. Realistic things, natural landscapes, myths and legends, historical allusions and dreamland have all become the media of his imagination. He often uses imagination to transcend time and space, interweaves reality with dreams and fairyland, interweaves nature with human society and reproduces objective reality. The images in his works are not the direct reflection of objective reality, but the externalization of his inner subjective world, which is the truth of art.
The influence of positive enterprising spirit on later generations: Li Bai's great influence on later generations is first of all the personality strength and charm shown in his poems. His extraordinary self-confidence of "since God has given talents, let them find jobs", his independent personality of "Oh, how can I grovel to high officials", his lofty spirit of "playing with thousands of friends and treating them like dirt" and his natural and unrestrained spirit of blending with nature have attracted countless literati. In the cultural tradition of China ancient feudal society in which individual personality consciousness was suppressed by orthodox thoughts, Li Bai's unrestrained and naive personality style undoubtedly has great charm. The bold and elegant style of his poems, unpredictable imagination and the beauty of clear water lotus have great appeal to later poets, and Su Shi, Lu You and others have all been influenced by him. Lu You, a great poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once praised Li Bai's poem: "There are several bright windows, and things grow new."
Li Bai's poems have a far-reaching influence on later generations. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Han Yu's poetry school accepted Li Bai's creative experience and formed its own romantic style. Li He's poems are influenced by Li Bai's poems and combined with his own creative practice, forming a unique romantic poetry style. Su Shi and Lu You, great poets in the Song Dynasty, also borrowed Li Bai's bold and unconstrained poetic style to express their thoughts. Until Gong Zizhen in Qing Dynasty, many poets absorbed nutrition from Li Bai's poems and integrated it into their own poetry creation. More than 0/200 years after Li Bai's death, his excellent poems have been handed down from generation to generation and are still loved by people today. They are sung by women and children and are widely known. They are not only the glorious heritage of the motherland's cultural treasure house, but also the treasures of world literature.