As the most outstanding poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Li Bai is also a "rare" great romantic poet in the history of China literature. Li Bai's poems and songs have the artistic charm of "the pen falls and shakes the wind and rain, and the poem makes the gods cry", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poems. Li Bai mobilized all romantic techniques, which made the content and form of poetry reach a perfect unity.
Li Bai's poems are full of self-expression and subjective lyricism, and the expression of feelings is overwhelming. For example, when he entered Beijing as an official, he said, "Laugh to the sky. Are we Artemisia people? " When I miss Chang 'an, "the wind blows my heart and hangs Xianyang trees in the west." Such poems are very infectious.
He had a rough experience and complicated thoughts. He is not only a talented poet, but also a ranger, assassin, hermit and Taoist. Confucianism, Taoism and Rangers are all reflected in him.
The poems left by Li Bai to future generations are brilliant, showing his mental journey all his life, which is an artistic portrayal of social reality and spiritual life in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Li Bai was ambitious all his life, and he expressed his yearning for fame and fortune unabashedly. This is vividly expressed in Fu Liangyin, Reading Biography of Zhuge Wuhou, and Love Cai Sheren Bear.
Li Bai also wrote many poems about chivalry, among which Chivalry is the representative work.
Three years of political life in Chang 'an had a profound influence on Li Bai's creation. There is a sharp contradiction between his political ideal and the dark reality, and unspeakable pain and resentment accumulate in his chest. Angry wrote good poems, so he wrote a series of nostalgic people, such as "Difficult to Go", "Antique" and "Answering the King for Twelve Nights". A famous sentence that is sad for a person's life and difficult to send away.
Li Bai lived a wandering life for most of his life, traveled to many famous mountains and rivers all over the country, and wrote a lot of beautiful poems praising the great rivers and mountains of the motherland to express his feelings of loving freedom and yearning for liberation. In this kind of poetry, the strange mountains and rivers complement his rebellious and unruly character. Among them, Ascension from Dreams is the most outstanding masterpiece. With dripping and carefree poems, the poet freely spread the wings of imagination, wrote all kinds of spiritual adventures and pursuits, and truly liberated the repressed soul in his dreams. And "Oh, how can I seriously bow and scrape to high-ranking people and people in high positions? They will never stand being shown an honest face!" Poetry is also to show the pride of the poet.
As a great poet who loves the motherland, cares about the people and never forgets the reality, Li Bai is also very concerned about the important issue of war. Enthusiastic praise is given to the soldiers guarding the border (such as "Xia Sai Qu"), and the wariness of the rulers is mercilessly lashed (such as "Battle of the South of the City" and "Song of Ding Du"). Li Bai also wrote many Yuefu poems, describing the hard life of laborers and expressing their concern and sympathy (such as Long March and Midnight Wu Ge). ).
Extreme exaggeration, apt metaphor and amazing fantasy make people feel highly real. Reading these poems, such as "But since the water is still flowing, even though it is cut with a sword, it is even more worrying to raise a glass to dispel the sorrow" and "White hair is three thousands of feet, and sorrow is like a beard", readers will be infected by the poet's long worries and endless melancholy. Li Bai's artistic expression is particularly prominent in his poems, such as Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream, Difficult Road to Shu, etc.
In Li Bai's poems, imagination, exaggeration, metaphor and personification are often used comprehensively to produce a fantastic, magnificent and moving artistic conception, which is why Li Bai's romantic poems give people a heroic, unrestrained and elegant charm. His language is clear, lively and meaningful, just as two of his poems say, "clear water gives birth to hibiscus, and it is naturally carved."
References: Li Bai Du Fu, Selected Poems of Li Bai.