Li Bai (701-762), a romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty, was hailed as the "Immortal of Poetry" by later generations; his courtesy name was Taibai, and his nickname was Qinglian Jushi. Han nationality, ancestral home is Longxi Chengji (now Tianshui, Gansu). One theory is that he was born in Suiye City (then part of the Tang Dynasty, now part of Kyrgyzstan), and moved to Mianzhou, Jiannan Road with his father when he was 4 years old. It is said that he was born in Changlong, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan). Li Bai has more than a thousand poems and essays in existence, and the "Collection of Li Taibai" has been handed down to the world. He died of illness in 762 at the age of 61. His tomb is in Dangtu, Anhui today, and there are memorial halls in Jiangyou, Sichuan, and Anlu, Hubei.
Li Bai lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He left Shu alone at the age of twenty-five and began to roam extensively, from Dongting to the Xiangjiang River in the south, to Yuezhou (Kuiji County) in the east, and lived in Anlu and Yingshan. . It was not until the first year of Tianbao (742) that Li Bai was summoned to Chang'an to worship the Imperial Academy due to the recommendation of the Taoist priest Wu Jun. Later, because he could not be accepted by the powerful, he only stayed in Beijing for two and a half years, and was given a gold and released. His teacher, Taoist priest Rugui, taught him the Taoist temple Ziji Palace in Jinan (now Jinan City, Shandong Province). Become a true Taoist priest and live a wandering life.
Li Bai and Du Fu are both called "Li Du". The overall style of his poems is fresh and elegant, which not only reflects the prosperity of the times, but also exposes the dissoluteness and corruption of the ruling class, showing contempt for the powerful, resisting the constraints of tradition, and pursuing freedom and ideals.
Li Bai's achievements in Yuefu, song lines and quatrains are the highest. His song lines completely break all the inherent characteristics of poetry creation
Li Bai (6 photos)
The format is empty and has no support, and the writing techniques are versatile, achieving the goal of being unpredictable and unpredictable. A swaying magical realm. Li Bai's quatrains are natural, lively, elegant and unrestrained, and can express endless emotions in concise and clear language. Among the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Jue, and Wang Changling and other Qi Jue wrote very well. Li Bai was the only one who was good at both the Five Jue and the Seven Jue and reached the same extreme level.
Li Bai's poems are majestic and elegant, and his artistic achievements are extremely high. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with a majestic and unrestrained style, handsome and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the perfect unity of content and art. He was called the "Exiled Immortal" by He Zhizhang, and most of his poems mainly described landscapes and expressed inner emotions. Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes weeping ghosts and gods", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poems. Li Bai's poems are rich in self-expression and have a strong subjective lyrical color, and his emotional expression has an overwhelming momentum. He and Du Fu are both called "Big Li Du" (Li Shangyin and Du Mu are called "Little Li Du").
Li Bai's poems often use imagination, exaggeration, metaphor, personification and other techniques to create magical, magnificent and moving artistic conceptions. This is why Li Bai's romantic poems give people a heroic, unrestrained, elegant and fairy-like feeling. Here's why.
Li Bai's poems have had a profound impact on future generations. Famous poets such as Han Yu, Meng Jiao, and Li He in the mid-Tang Dynasty, Su Shi, Lu You, and Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, and Gao Qi, Yang Shen, and Gong Zizhen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were all greatly influenced by Li Bai's poetry.
Poetry style
Bold and unrestrained, fresh and elegant, rich in imagination, wonderful artistic conception, wonderful language, romanticism, and clear intention.
Li Bai lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He had a heroic character and loved the mountains and rivers of his motherland. He traveled all over the north and south and wrote a large number of magnificent poems praising famous mountains and rivers. His poems are bold and unrestrained, fresh and elegant, rich in imagination, wonderful in artistic conception, and brisk in language. People call him the "Poetic Immortal".
Li Bai's poetry not only has the typical romantic spirit, but also has the typical romantic artistic characteristics from image creation, material intake, genre selection and the use of various artistic techniques. [5]
Li Bai succeeded in shaping himself, expressing himself strongly, and highlighting the unique personality of the lyrical protagonist. Therefore, his poems have distinctive romantic characteristics. He likes to use majestic images to express himself. In his poems, he expresses his emotions without any concealment or without adding any
Li Bai's chanting pictures
to show his joy, anger, sorrow and joy. To the powerful and powerful, he "held a chrysanthemum in his hand and made fun of two thousand stones" (one of the two poems "Send Cui Shiyu after Drunk"); when he saw the hard work of the working people, his "heart broke into tears like rain". When the country was overturned and the people's livelihood was in ruins, he "crossed the river and swore to flow, aiming to clear the Central Plains. He drew his sword and struck the front pillar, and the tragic song was difficult to repeat" ("Nan Ben Shu Huai"), so impassioned; when drinking happily with friends, " The two drank together while the flowers bloomed in the mountains, one cup after another. I'm so drunk that I'm ready to go to sleep, but I will bring my piano back tomorrow." ("Drinking with a Hidden Man in the Mountains"), again so innocent and straightforward. In short, his poems vividly express his unrestrained character and suave image.
Boldness is the main feature of Li Bai's poetry. In addition to factors such as thought, personality, talents, emotions, experiences, and other factors, the artistic expression techniques and genre structure used in Li Bai's poems are also important reasons for the formation of his bold and elegant style. Being good at relying on imagination and expressing objectivity subjectively is an important feature of the romantic artistic technique of Li Bai's poetry. Almost every article contains imagination, and some even use a variety of imagination throughout the article. Real things, natural landscapes, myths and legends, historical allusions, and dreams and illusions have all become the medium of his imagination. Often with the help of imagination, transcending time and space, intertwining reality with dreams and fairyland, nature and human society, and recreating objective reality.
The images he paints are not direct reflections of objective reality, but the externalization of his inner subjective world, the reality of art.
One of the romantic artistic techniques of Li Bai's poetry is to skillfully combine personification and metaphor, empathize with things, and compare things to people.
Another romantic artistic technique in Li Bai's poetry is to seize certain characteristics of things and add bold imagination and exaggeration based on the reality of life. His exaggeration is not only unique in imagination, but also always combined with specific things. The exaggeration is so natural and invisible; so bold, yet true and believable, it plays the role of highlighting the image and strengthening the emotion. Sometimes he also combines bold exaggeration with sharp contrast to enhance the artistic effect by increasing the artistic contrast.
Li Bai's best genres are seven-character songs and quatrains. Li Bai's seven-character song line adopts the structure of large opening and closing, jumping and swinging. The beginning of the poem is often abrupt, like a sudden surge, while the middle images of the poem change suddenly, often omitting transitional references, and there seems to be no trace to follow.
Taibai Style (Created by Zhu Weijing) [6]
Poems often end abruptly at the emotional climax.
Li Bai's five or seven character quatrains more represent the fresh and bright style of his poetry. For example, "Early Departure from Baidi City", "Farewell to Meng Haoran in Guangling", "Quiet Night Thoughts", etc., the wonderful thing is that "only the foreground and spoken words are seen, but there are overtones and foreign tastes, which make people feel far away." ("Shuo") "Poetry" (Part 1)
Some of the language of Li Bai's poems are as fresh as spoken language, some are bold and unrestrained, and are close to prose, but they are all unified in the theme of "clear water brings out hibiscus, and the natural carvings are removed" Among the natural beauty. This is related to his conscious pursuit of natural beauty. He inherited Chen Zi'ang's literary ideas and took it as his duty to restore the tradition of poetic poetry. He once said, "Since the Liang and Chen Dynasties, beauty has been extremely rare, but Shen Xiu's prose still relies on rhythm and will restore the Taoism. Who but me can do it?" (Meng Meng) (Pictured in "Poetry of Skills: Gao Yi") He advocated "innocence" and satirized ugly girls who "become naive" and learn to walk in Handan. The natural beauty of his poetic language is the result of his careful study of folk songs to understand their popular characteristics. They are as clear as words, popular and vivid.