Li Bai's Yuefu poems largely follow the theme of ancient Yuefu, or use its original intention or reverse the original meaning, which can be described as doing its best. Its innovation is mainly manifested in two aspects: on the one hand, it uses ancient inscriptions to write current events, which has a distinct spirit of the times. For example, travel notes from Jibeimen, Chivalrous Travels, etc. , are works of fate, expressing J scholars' feelings about real life, with profound implications and sustenance. On the other hand, I write my own feelings with ancient questions, because the theme and title of Yuefu contained in ancient questions triggered the author's feelings and associations at a certain moment, and used it to express my feelings.
Li Bai wrote his own Yuefu poems with ancient inscriptions. Because of his emphasis on subjective lyricism, it can better reflect the personality characteristics of Li Bai's poetry creation, which is unprovoked and powerful. Its beauty is often between solvable and unsolvable. It can be said that it has a sustenance, or it can be said that it is just expressing feelings and wanting to fall into the sky, which is both weird and strange. For example, the ancient poem "Shu Dao is difficult" implied that it is difficult to achieve great success, which touched Li Baichu's grief and indignation when he entered Chang 'an to pursue success, so he used this ancient title to express his feelings and repeatedly lamented that "Shu Dao is difficult to achieve great success". Another example is "drinking wine". The old theme of Yuefu poem contains the meaning of drinking and singing, which triggered Li Bai's heroic expression of "Since God has given talents, let them find jobs". With the momentum and strength of the river flowing, it not only gave full play to the theme of the original song, but also fully demonstrated the poet's wild and confident personality.
Although Li Bai's Yuefu poems are imitations, there are "I" everywhere, showing the personality characteristics that others can't copy. It's hard to go like this, which is Li Bai-style in tone and momentum. It uses the first-person expression and discussion to express subjective feelings, completely breaking the traditional writing method of Yuefu-style narration. When poets choose Yuefu as an old topic to express their feelings, they often make creative germination and association according to the implication and emotional tendency of this topic in ancient poems, highlight their subjective feelings with bold exaggeration and clever metaphor, and form a magnificent momentum with unrestrained writing. Li Bai brought his romantic temperament into Yuefu, thus giving Yuefu a new life and pushing Yuefu poetry creation to an unparalleled peak.
Li Bai integrated his personality temperament into the creation of Yuefu poems, forming a lyrical way of flowing and dynamic. This kind of movement, from the perspective of syllables of sentences, is often manifested in uneven sentence levels and ups and downs of rhythm, especially in the Yuefu style of miscellaneous words. Li Bai's representative works of Yuefu, such as Shu Dao Nan, Jiang, Fu Liang Yin, etc. , mostly composed of five or seven words. In terms of system and style, there is almost no substantive difference between this miscellaneous style of Yuefu and the popular Song Style in Tang Dynasty. In fact, Li Men's creation of Yuefu poetry completed the fundamental transformation from the ancient style of Han and Wei Dynasties to the style of prosperous Tang Dynasty.