Comparing the Similarities and Differences between the Ancient Poem "Trying to Play the Harp" and "Listening to Lu Playing the Piano on a Moonlit Night"

Listening to Lu playing the piano on a moonlit night is a five-character ancient poem by the poet Li Bai. In the poem, Li Bai listened to a secluded person playing the piano, and used rhetorical devices such as narration, metaphor and personification to lament the sadness of finding a bosom friend. In writing, the poet's life is full of ups and downs and hardships.

Qian Qi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a trial poem when he went to Beijing to take part in the provincial examination. The content of the poem vividly reproduces the bitter tune played by E Huang and Nv Ying when they are looking for husbands, and vividly shows the unfailing loyalty of the Second Princess to love and her sadness and yearning for Shun Di who died in Cangwu.

The two poems express different themes.