Both Li Bai and Du Fu's poems express their admiration for each other. Li Bai's Into the Wine and Du Fu's Memories of Li Bai in Spring were written to praise each other. These poems not only show their profound literary attainments and superb poetic talents, but also show their appreciation and respect for each other.
Li Bai and Du Fu have similarities in literary creation. Li Bai is a representative poet of romanticism in Tang Dynasty. His poems are full of bold, unrestrained and romantic colors, while Du Fu is a representative poet of realism in Tang Dynasty. His poems pay more attention to the description and depiction of real life. Although their poetry styles are different, they all show their love for life and profound insight into human nature in their poetry creation. These similarities also reflect their pursuit and values in literary creation.
The style of Du Fu's poems;
1, depressed and frustrated: this is one of the most remarkable styles of Du Fu's poems. His poems are generally considered to have the characteristics of melancholy in language, and later people used the word melancholy and frustration to accurately summarize the language of his works. His poems often give people a sad, profound and impassioned feeling, without losing the sense of cadence. Such as "The Place of Tears" and "Lonely Birds Singing Sorrow" express the poet's deep concern for the country and people.
2. Inclusiveness: Du Fu's poems are diverse and inclusive. He not only inherited the literary traditions of the previous generation, such as The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, but also borrowed folk songs and Yuefu poems from the Southern Dynasties, forming his own unique poetic style. His poems have a wide range of themes, including politics, society, history, life and many other aspects, which are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
3. Righteousness versus antithesis: Du Fu's poems have high attainments in meter, rightness and neat antithesis. He is good at using various rhetorical devices in his poems, such as antithesis, parallelism and symbolism, which makes his poems more expressive and artistic. For example, The Monkey Birds in the Sky Return to Baisha, clear lake, not only reached a high level in diction and sentence making, but also showed a strong sense of picture through vivid description.