Comparison of Poetry Styles between Li Shangyin and Du Mu

Li Shangyin's poems are political poems reflecting social reality. His representative works include "Hundred Rhymes in the Western Suburb" and so on, and he is known as the successor of Du Fu's Northern Expedition. In addition, two poems, such as Feeling and Re-feeling, can express his views and attitudes towards real politics.

The second is to chant epic poems. Li Shangyin's epic poems are numerous and precise, mostly revealing and satirizing the contradiction between the arrogance and fatuity of the supreme ruler and the feudal ruling class through history. Such as Longchi, Yaochi, Yong Shi, Ma Wei, Qigong Ci, Sui Palace, etc.

Du Mu was an expert in writing seven-character quatrains in the late Tang Dynasty. Poetry is characterized by heroism and heroism. Later generations commented on pastoral poetry, such as a bronze pill walking on a stone bench and a fine horse falling on a slope, meaning to struggle for roundness.

There are two contradictory aspects in Du Mu's thought. Du Mu had two completely different contradictory thoughts in his life, both of which were constantly changing. "Du Mu, after all, is more positive and less negative, so the beginning should be positive and negative, and then positive in negative. Du Mu's thoughts are constantly changing in this formula.

This paper analyzes the poet's ambition of worrying about the country and the people, and holds that he is armed, knowledgeable and good at using troops, and he is armed only to be a soldier. Wu Zaiqing's On Du Mu also discusses Du Mu's political thought, and holds that Du Mu is not only a patriot who dares to face up to reality and expose social abuses, but also a poet who sympathizes with and cares for people's livelihood.

Du Mu's heroism reflects the fantasy and efforts of some people with lofty ideals who tried to save the nation and survive in the late Tang Dynasty.

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On the artistic features of li shangyin's poems. His predecessors rated him as "affectionate", "rich in meaning", "deep in sustenance, gentle in wording", profound and gorgeous, and so on. Generally speaking, his poems have the characteristics of careful conception, profound sustenance, beautiful language, accurate allusions and rigorous meter. Specifically, his poems have the following characteristics.

Regarding the artistic style of Du Mu's poems, Liu Xizai has a summary: "Du Fanchuan's poems are heroic." Compared with the style of Li Shangyin's poems, Liu's so-called "heroic spirit" means that Du Mu's poems show the poet's great ambition to save the country and the people in content, pay attention to heroism and emotional catharsis in artistic form, and have a heroic spirit.