The images in Du Fu's poems include natural landscapes such as ancient bunkers, autumn clouds, apes whistling, broken torches, steep gorges, defending, solitary boats, fallen flowers and sunset, ordinary people such as Weaver Maid, old woman, old farmer and concubine, and powerful forces such as officials, generals and hooligans.
They all show Du Fu's urgent mood of "saving the world and helping the world", his denunciation of confusing Gan Kun, his indignation at bullying, his sorrow for wandering and displacement, and his compassion for countless lives.
Among Du Fu's poems, most of his works reflect the social outlook at that time, with a wide range of themes and far-reaching significance, especially describing the sufferings of the people and expressing his sympathy for the people and his feelings of worrying about the country and the people. Du Fu's poems are called the history of poetry, which first appeared in the late Tang Dynasty.
Poetry achievements:
Du Fu's middle-aged poems are called "the history of poetry" because of his gloomy poetic style and feelings of worrying about the country and the people. His poems are good at antique and rhythmic poems, and have various styles. He accurately summed up his work style with the words "depressed and frustrated", mainly focusing on depression.
Du Fu lived in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty. Most of his poems involve social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's sufferings at that time. His poems recorded the historical changes of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and expressed the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and strong sense of hardship, so they were called "the history of poetry".