Why is Li Bai a romantic poet and Du Fu a realistic poet?

Li Bai is a romantic poet because Li Bai often uses imagination, exaggeration, metaphor, personification and other techniques in his poems to create a magical and magnificent artistic conception, which is full of romanticism.

Du Fu is a realistic poet, because most of Du Fu's poems describe people's sufferings and reflect the real life of the contemporary world.

Li Bai and Du Fu are influential figures in the history of China's poetry. Li Bai was called "Poet Fairy" and Du Fu was called "Poet Saint".

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Du Fu's poems are rich in social content, strong in times and distinctive in political inclination, which truly and profoundly reflect the political current affairs and broad social life prospect of a historical era before and after the An Shi Rebellion, and are called the "poetic history" of a generation.

Du Fu's poems have various styles. Besides Five Ancient Poems, Seven Ancient Poems and Five Laws and Seven Laws, he also wrote a lot of rhymes and styles and used various artistic techniques. He is a master of the thought and art of Tang poetry.

Du Fu inherited the spirit of Yuefu in Han and Wei Dynasties, and got rid of the shackles of Yuefu's ancient themes, creating many new Yuefu themes, such as "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells". After his death, he was highly praised by Huang Fan, Han Yu, Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi.

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