Li Bai is older than Du Fu 1 1 year. Li Bai's poems were mainly written in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and Kaiyuan period. At that time, it was a time of peace and prosperity, so most of Li Bai's poems were heroic and broad-minded.
Du Fu's poems mainly come from Tianbao period, when An Shi Rebellion broke out, the country was broken, wars were frequent, the people were devastated and the land was barren, so Du Fu's poems were generally related to the sufferings of the people.
Second, different personalities.
Li Bai, who lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was heroic and loved the mountains and rivers of the motherland. He traveled all over the country and wrote many magnificent poems praising famous mountains and rivers. His poems are bold, fresh and elegant, with rich imagination, wonderful artistic conception and light language. People call him "Poet Fairy".
Du Fu's early personality was also bold and unrestrained, but in the later period, under the successive blows of hopeless official career and the ruin of the country, his personality became more and more calm and his poetry changed to realism.
Third, experience is different.
Li Bai had a smooth career all his life and was deeply loved by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. He became famous all over the world at a young age. Du Fu was poor all his life, his official career was not smooth, and he experienced the ruin of his country and the frequent wars, which led to their different styles.
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Li Bai and Du Fu's Poetic Achievements
I. Li Bai
Li Bai's poems are magnificent and elegant, and his artistic achievements are extremely high. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with bold and unrestrained style, elegant and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the unity of content and art, so he was called the "fallen fairy". His poems mainly described the mountains and rivers and expressed his inner feelings.
Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen is shaken by the wind and rain, and the poem makes the gods cry", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature in his poems. Li Bai's poems are full of self-expression and subjective lyricism, and the expression of feelings is overwhelming. He and Du Fu are also called "Da Du Li".
In Li Bai's poems, imagination, exaggeration, metaphor, personification and other techniques are often used comprehensively to produce magical brilliance and magnificent artistic conception, which is the reason why Li Bai's romantic poems give people heroic and unrestrained, elegant and immortal.
Li Bai's poems and songs had a far-reaching influence on later generations. Han Yu, Meng Jiao and Li He in the middle Tang Dynasty, Su Shi, Lu You and Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, Gao Qi, Yang Shen and Gong Zizhen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were all greatly influenced by Li Bai's poems.
Second, Du Fu
Du Fu's middle-aged poems are called "the history of poetry" because of his gloomy poetic style and feelings of worrying about the country and the people. His poems are good at antique and rhythmic poems, and have various styles. He accurately summed up his work style with the words "depressed and frustrated", mainly focusing on depression.
Du Fu lived in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty. Most of his poems involve social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's sufferings at that time. His poems recorded the historical changes of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and expressed the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and strong sense of hardship, so they were called "the history of poetry".
Du Fu is concerned about the country and the people, with noble personality and exquisite poetic skills. Du Fu wrote more than 1500 poems in his life, many of which are famous works that have been passed down through the ages. Du Fu's poems handed down from generation to generation are the most extensive in the Tang Dynasty, and he is one of the most outstanding poets in the Tang Dynasty, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations. Du Fu's works are known as the scars of the world and the sages in poetry. The people are in poverty, and the bottom of the pen is turbulent. It is a masterpiece of realistic poetry.