2. The distinctive and fresh artistic style of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems is obvious, but this natural poetic style is obtained through careful carving. His poems are too carved and described, and the resulting confusion and obscure language. However, most of Tao Yuanming's poems are based on rural scenery and ordinary life, which are directly expressed by simple language and simple painting methods, making people feel natural, cordial and sincere, without any traces of artificial carving, guiding readers to appreciate the relaxed and diluted feelings and enter the artistic conception created by the poet. He is good at refining the spoken language in daily life into poetry, which is full of strong flavor of life. He often uses metaphors, symbols, sustenance and other techniques, even if he uses allusions, it is colloquial.
3. Xie Lingyun's landscape poems attach great importance to the careful scrutiny of the formal pattern, and adopt the structure of "narration-scenery description-reasoning" in the expression technique, vividly describing the sound, light and color of landscape scenery, and he can notice the color harmony and contrast between light and shade of the picture described in the poem. Tao's poems are more casual and pay attention to smooth and straightforward expression.
4. Xie Lingyun's landscape poetry takes the landscape in the poem as the theme, integrates the theory of emptiness into the landscape of Shang Fu, enlightens people with the scenery appealing to human senses, shows the theory of "transcending images" and has a mysterious interest. Most of his poems are about scenery and metaphysics. The images in Tao Yuanming's poems seem unremarkable, but they create a lofty and unconventional artistic realm. The main idea of his poems lies in freehand brushwork, in expressing his mind, interest and understanding of life, while the description and narration of scenery is only for meaning. Many of Tao's poems have reached the natural artistic realm of the unity of things and me, subject and object, emotion, scenery and reason.
Tao's poems are generally filled with subjective feelings, so the pastoral scenery in his works is quiet and elegant, which is in sharp contrast with the noise and filth of officialdom, thus casting an emotional color of the poet's love for the countryside and leisure. In fact, the actual countryside is not completely like this. Xie Shi chose the beautiful things in nature to describe them in detail, striving for realistic modeling to reveal the true beauty of nature. In this sense, Tao's poems are freehand brushwork and Xie's poems are realistic.