What does a romantic poet mean?

Romanticism is one of the basic creative methods of literature and art, and together with realism, it constitutes the two mainstream ideological trends of literature and art. Romanticism, as a creative method, pays attention to the subjective inner world while reflecting the objective reality, expresses the passionate pursuit of the ideal world, and often uses passionate language, magnificent imagination and exaggerated techniques to create images. Romantic creative tendency has a long history. As early as the oral creation period of human literature and art, some works have romantic factors and characteristics to varying degrees. However, romanticism at this time did not form a trend of thought, nor was it a creative method that people consciously mastered.

China's romanticism advocates creative freedom and describes nature, while folk literature and art pay attention to innovation and anti-imitation, emphasizing strangeness and neglecting vulgarity. It has rich imagination and profound curiosity, describes strange plots with bold imagination and exaggeration, and creates extraordinary and unique characters. Romantic poetry is novel in form, free in rhythm, rich in rhetoric, moving in metaphor, concise in sentence and magnificent in color. Romantic poetry has different characteristics in different countries. Representative works such as Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Li He, Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo, Shen Congwen, etc. Qu Yuan's Li Sao, Li Bai's Entering the Wine, Difficult Road to Shu, Li He's Li Ping's Quotations, and Zhang's Moonlit Night on the Spring River, etc.