He succeeded in combining realism with romanticism, and completed his lyric art of expressing current affairs, pinning his ideals and highlighting the theme. The realistic tone of Lu You's poems is not or rarely a complete narrative description of objective real life, but good at reflecting reality with high generalization and narrative discussion, and paying attention to expressing personal subjective feelings and opinions. He often combines narration, discussion and lyricism, and condenses the huge social reality into a short poem to express it. For example, "in the next fifteen years, the general will not be empty." Zhu dances heavily, but the horse is fat and the bow is broken. Garrison Diao Dou urged the moon to set and joined the army at the age of 30. Who knows that a strong man's heart is in the flute, and the sand head is empty. When the Central Plains heard of the war, there were descendants who opposed Hu Chuan! The adherents endured death, hoping to recover, and shed tears in several places tonight "(Guan Shanyue). The whole poem is only 12 sentences, but it describes many aspects of the emperor's imperial edict advocating peace, generals not fighting the border, singing and dancing, soldiers serving the country, and adherents recovering lost ground, which has become a highly artistic summary of the peace and anti-Japanese war struggle in the Southern Song Dynasty. Moreover, the author put his feelings of opposing peace, reprimanding power traitors and sympathizing with adherents into it, and expressed his feelings directly, which made his realistic poems show special interest and profundity. In addition, Lu You loves his country and his people, but because of the contradiction between reality and ideal, the poet can only express his heroism in his chest with fantasy and dreams, so Lu You's poems are very romantic. Such as "holding a white jade boat, swimming in the Crystal Palace, when I drink, the mountains and rivers are in my chest" ("Drunk Song"). This combination of fantasy and reality is a remarkable feature of Lu You's romantic poetry and a new extension of the romantic tradition of China's ancient poetry.
The second is artistic style, which is vigorous, tragic and fresh and beautiful.
Lu You, with his superb aesthetic taste and artistic accomplishment, draws nutrition from hundred schools of thought and is good at innovation. Therefore, his poetry presents a unique artistic style of vigorous and tragic, fresh and graceful. This is mainly due to his successful absorption of Du Fu's depression and Li Bai's romance. He is good at combining these two styles, that is, taking Du Fu's profundity, richness and stagnation as the body, as the keynote to express patriotic feelings; Li Bai is full of passion, imagination and self-color, and is good at exaggeration, jumping and high generalization as lyric expression means; In the end, I formed my own style which is gloomy, tragic, fresh and graceful. His patriotic poems often reflect the majestic and tragic style, with majestic, magnificent, enthusiastic and energetic masculine beauty. For example, "I don't know the world is difficult at a young age, and the Central Plains looks like a mountain." When the boat crossed Guazhou at night, the iron horse and autumn wind scattered, the Great Wall was empty, and the temple in the mirror had long faded. At the beginning of my career, I can tell my real name, and no one can match it in a thousand years (Book Wrath). At the same time, Lu You is also good at absorbing Tao Yuanming's simplicity, Wang Wei's quietness and plum's simplicity and naturalness, and can inherit Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Wang Jian, Ouyang Xiu and even Fan Chengda's spirit of caring for reality since the middle and late Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, forming a family style that is both beautiful and pure, full of life breath. His poems about objects and scenery often reflect a fresh and graceful style, with a beautiful and refined, tactfully novel female beauty. For example, "don't laugh at the farmer's wine and wine, leave enough chickens and dolphins in good years." "Mountain overlapping water twists and turns are worrying about no way out, and a mountain village suddenly appeared in the willow green flower bay. The day of playing flute and drums is approaching, and the villagers are still dressed simply. From now on, if you land on the moon leisurely, you will knock on the door all night with a cane. " You visit Shanxi village. "
Third, the language style is concise and vivid, easy to understand and natural and fluent.
In terms of language, Lu You opposes carving, and even more opposes pursuing the adventure, simplicity and exquisiteness of nature. For example, "although I am tired, I am not only strong, I can ask for a long tassel." I got on the horse without hesitation! " (Reading the Art of War at Night). In just four sentences, he is old and strong, and he is willing to join the army at once. The mood of mounting a horse to kill the enemy is clear and vivid. The language of Lu's poems is unpretentious, because he absorbed folk spoken language, dialects and proverbs and wrote them into his own poems. He said: "Carving has its own words, and the danger is especially harmful." He is famous for his antithesis poems, which are often neat but not exquisite, novel but not carved, and very natural and smooth. For example, "I hold my country to death, and my temples are gray." Grief and indignation spread from beautiful words, deep and graceful.
Fourth, genre forms are unprepared, and each shows its magic power.
Lu You is good at antithesis, and almost every capital has a pair, which is both smooth and wonderful. Not only is it unexpected, but it has no sense of being crude and artificial. Such as: "Castle Peak is a place where bones can be buried, and white hair is ashamed to bend over", "Clouds bring a little rain when they return, and peaks are added when trees fall", "Heavy curtains don't roll for a long time, and ancient inkstones are slightly concave and gather more ink" (quoted from Ou Bei Shi Hua) and so on. Lu You's quatrains, especially the seven quatrains, mark the highest level of quatrains in the Song Dynasty. Some inherited the wind of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, such as "Rain on Jianmen Road": dust on clothes, wine stains, and a long trip is fascinating. Is this a poet? Riding a donkey into the sword gate in the drizzle. Lu You's ancient poem "Beauty is deeper than beauty" is more suitable for expressing Lu You's deep and unrestrained feelings, so it is more abundant to write "Hunliu" (Ou Bei Shi Hua). Paying attention to skills and tempering is another manifestation of Lu You's poetic achievements.
In a word, Lu You is an outstanding poet in the history of China's poetry development. He inherited and carried forward the fine traditions of realism and romanticism, swept away the accumulated disadvantages of Jiangxi School, and set up the glorious banner of progressive literature, which had a far-reaching influence at that time and later generations.