Li Bai lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the country was strong, and the literati were eager to make contributions. Therefore, as a scholar in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, his poems echoed the times and showed great ambition.
Li Bai is a famous romantic poet. He inherited the romantic tradition since The Songs of the South. His poems are passionate, magnificent, imaginative, fresh and romantic. In the most prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, the poetic style expressed personal feelings and praised the desire and pursuit of free life and personal value.
Du Fu lived in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty, and his poems were mostly about social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His poems reflect the social contradictions and people's sufferings at that time, so Du Fu's poems are characterized by strict rules, restrained emotions, depression and full of realism, and have the personality characteristics of worrying about the country and the people and showing compassion for the people. Du Fu's wandering poetic style in the war and his miserable life complement each other and appear sad and painful.
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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 called "Big Du Li" (Li Shangyin and Du Mu are called "Little Du Li").
Du Fu is good at using many systems of classical poetry and creatively developing them. Du Fu's thought of paying attention to people's livelihood and his achievements in rhythmic poetry directly influenced the creation of new Yuefu by Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi and others in the middle Tang Dynasty. He is the pioneer of the new Yuefu poetry style. His Yuefu poems contributed to the development of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty.
His "May 7th" archaic novel, which is also a history of poetry, began to narrate and focus on the whole story, marking the high achievement of China's poetic art. The Song Dynasty, full of social contradictions, was the most prosperous time to learn from Du Fu, and the Jiangxi Poetry School with Du Fu as the Sect appeared. Gu and others in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties also had an obvious tendency to learn from Du Fu. They also used metrical poems to reflect the anti-Qing struggle at that time and were impassioned.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Bai (a famous romantic poet in Tang Dynasty)
Baidu Encyclopedia-Du Fu (a famous realistic poet in Tang Dynasty)