Exaggeration in Li Bai's poems can be seen everywhere, especially in his landscape poems. For example:
White waves are like mountains that can be crossed, and strong winds worry about steep sails to kill people. ("Hengjiang Ci")
Baling didn't drink enough wine and got drunk together in the autumn of Dongting Lake. ("Traveling with Uncle Yu in Dongting")
Why not quit drinking and killing people with red makeup? ("Give Duan Qi Niang")
These exaggerations are bold but vivid. Who has seen "Baling Unlimited Wine" can "kill Dongting and Autumn", but readers only feel that the image is vivid and vivid, not abrupt and unbelievable.
We say that the exaggeration of Li Bai's poems is the boldest, but his exaggeration is the most acceptable. For example, his fifteenth poem "Ode to Autumn" Pu:
White hair three thousands of feet, sorrow like a beard. I don't know where to get autumn frost in the mirror.
In the poem, he wrote about his white hair, saying that "white hair is three thousands of feet", which is extremely exaggerated. Who has such long white hair? Who has ever seen such long white hair? But when we read this poem, we don't think that Li Bai's description is unacceptable and unreliable, but we feel natural.