This paper discusses the similarities and differences between Li Bai and Du Fu's poetry creation with examples.

Li Bai belongs to romanticism and Du Fu belongs to critical realism. The most fundamental difference in Du Li's creation lies in his different attitudes towards subjectivity and objectivity. In Wang Guowei's words, Li Bai is a subjective poet and Du Fu is an objective poet. Many of Li Bai's poems show the idea of pursuing immortality and eating, drinking and enjoying in time; Many of Du Fu's poems show the thoughts of worrying about the world and caring for others.

A detailed comparison shows that Li Bai is good at self-lyric, most of which are lyric poems, and narrative poems are also lyric. His poems always focus on "self", emphasizing and promoting the role of the subject, and even reaching the level of controlling and conquering the object (describing the object). For example, "Shu Dao Nan". The poet has repeatedly lamented that "it is difficult to learn Shu Dao and go to heaven", which was originally intended to imply that the poet's image is everywhere.

The social content of Du Fu's poems is directly presented through real and vivid pictures of social life. So it's easy to recognize. The image of Li Bai's poems is mainly the poet himself, not the objective social life, so his social content is not easy to be understood.