Du Fu pays attention to describing reality in the artistic features of his poems, and takes depression and frustration as the emotional tone. There is a deep anxiety in his poems, which describes the sufferings of the people, his homesickness for his friends and his own poverty, and his feelings are deep and broad.
In a word, Li Bai's poems are bold and elegant, while Du Fu's poems are depressed and frustrated.
Li Bai's poetry and song creation has a bold and elegant style, and its main features are:
(1) has a strong subjective color. Poets pay attention to describing heroism and passionate feelings, and rarely describe objective images and specific events in detail. Poetry is also very jumping, because he often constructs the whole poem not according to the logic of life, but according to the traces of emotion, and expresses the vagaries of feelings through the ups and downs of poetry.
(2) the momentum is abundant. The lyricism of Li Bai's poems is often explosive, rushing out, powerful and magnificent.
(3) rich and peculiar imagination, bold and amazing exaggeration. The imagination of Li Bai's poems is unrestrained, unpredictable and strange. Poems such as "White hair is three thousands of feet, sorrow is ten feet long" and "Yanshan snowflake is as big as a seat" have long been typical exaggerations in literary description. And his drinking capacity is also "it takes one or three hundred cups" and "it takes two thousand stones to finish it". His ascent even reached the point where "the highest cliff is only one foot away from the sky" and "you can approach the moon with your hands up".
These exaggerated poems of "the pen falls and the wind and rain shake, and the poem makes the gods cry" abound in Li Bai's magnificent and bold poems, which are dazzling and amazing.
(4) The language is fresh and elegant. As he himself said, it is "clear water produces hibiscus, which is naturally carved."
(5) Adapting to the style, in the choice of poetic style, we seldom use metrical poems, but use classical poems, especially seven-character metrical poems, which are easy to gallop freely and freely.
Du Fu's poems are gloomy and frustrated, and the artistic features of his creation are mainly manifested in the following aspects:
Narrative poetry (1) is good at giving a high artistic summary of real life through typical events and characters, and showing a broad historical picture from a perspective. At the same time, I put my subjective consciousness, thoughts and feelings into an objective and concrete description, but I don't understand it. He vigorously wrote a new topic Yuefu and became a pioneer of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty.
(2) Lyric poetry conveys feelings to the scene, melts the scene into feelings, and blends the scene. I deeply described and dissected my rich, complicated and tortuous inner world.
(3) We attach great importance to tempering poetic language, which is vigorous and concise, and often expresses the richest content with the least words. Self-proclaimed: "The language is not amazing." Improve the expressive force of China's classical poetry language to a new stage.
(4) Being good at using all kinds of poetic styles, creatively exerting the functions of all kinds of poetic styles, and setting an example for all kinds of poetic styles. Metric poems, in particular, have become more and more exquisite in his hands, greatly expanding the scope of expression. Among them, the most successful is the Seven Rhymes, which not only pushes the Seven Rhymes to maturity, but also gives full play to the expressive force contained in this poetic form. Represented his contribution in the history of China's poetry.