Their poetic style and personality are like two extremes, but they have brought their own styles to the extreme, unprecedented and unprecedented! Li Bai is comparable, only Du Fu; Li Bai is the only person who can compete with Du Fu! But who is better, the poet immortal or the poet saint, has been arguing endlessly for thousands of years, and later generations can't give a definite answer.
Today, let's compare the works of Li Bai and Du Fu with the least number of five-character quatrains, and see who can be better:
Sitting alone in Jingting Mountain, Li Bai, the birds are high, and the lonely clouds are alone.
You look at me, I look at you, and there are only my eyes and Jingting Mountain's eyes.
Li Bai is good at writing China's ancient poems, among which metrical poems account for very little, especially five-character quatrains. However, almost all of Li Bai's five-character quatrains are excellent works, the most famous of which is the well-known poem "Thinking of a Quiet Night". And this song "Sitting alone in Jingting Mountain" has a meaningful artistic conception and a long aftertaste, without losing "Thinking of a Quiet Night".
This poem "Sitting alone in Jingting Mountain" can be said to be the most lonely poem of Li Bai, but it shows a sense of loneliness in the landscape interest. It not only has the beauty of mountains and rivers, but also has a quiet and leisurely posture. Only by thinking deeply can we appreciate the great loneliness contained in it!
Love is in the scenery, love is in the scenery, and the whole poem is full of scenery. There is no word about love, but it seems to contain feelings everywhere, revealing Li Bai's loneliness everywhere. Li Bai's ancient style is elegant and chic, but his five-character quatrains are fresh and natural, and his ideas are high, which shows that they are extraordinary! Let's look at Du Fu's five-character quatrains:
Ba Dou is divided into three parts, and Bamianbao is built on his reputation.
This river won't divert the stones from your disposal, and you will always regret that you will destroy Wu's unwise.
Du Fu's poems are good at carving words, and his best is metrical poems, especially metrical poems, which are imitated by later poets and have far-reaching influence. Du Fu's five-character quatrains are not many, such as "Swallows flying in the mud, Yuanyang sleeping in the sand" and "Birds in the river are too white and blue flowers in the mountains are burning".
This "Eight Arrays" is also a masterpiece of Du Fu's five-character quatrains, and its theme of chanting history can better reflect Du Fu's depressed and frustrated realistic poetic style! The antithesis of "The Three Kingdoms, torn apart, has been bound by its greatness, and the Eight Faces Fortress stands in its name" is exquisite and neat, like rhyme, and its momentum is also extremely extraordinary. "Things change, stones flow through the ages" naturally expressed their regret for Zhuge Liang. It is fascinating to enter the poem with discussion, but it is not stagnant and still has a aftertaste.
These two Tang poems can be said to be the representative works of Li Bai and Du Fu's five-character quatrains. Li Bai is fresh and natural, with meaningful artistic conception. On the other hand, Du Fu is argumentative and lyrical. Although their styles are different, they also contain endless meanings, and it is really difficult to compete.
If we have to compare Li Bai's and Du Fu's five-character quatrains, we can only look at readers' respective preferences. Du Fu, a natural poet who likes vicissitudes of life and depression, and Li Bai, who likes elegance and nature!