Li Bai's poems faithfully describe his life's thoughts and experiences, and also show the traces of historical development and the spirit of the times in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It can be said that it is a barometer to record the poet's emotions and the rise and fall of the country.
-"Tang Poetry Hua Ying"
The Tang Dynasty is the most glorious era in China's history, and its cheerful and graceful bearing is unparalleled in the whole feudal society. Li Bai is a dazzling superstar in the poetry of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. As soon as he read Li Bai's Difficult Road to Shu, he was amazed that he was a "fallen fairy". From then on, Li Bai had the reputation of "Poet Fairy". "Li Bai fights wine poems and sleeps in Chang 'an Restaurant. The son of heaven called instead of boarding the boat, claiming that he was Brewmaster. "These are some poems written by Li Bai in Du Fu's Song of Drinking Eight Immortals, which, like sketches, vividly show Li Bai's wild and unruly character. His free and frank poetic style has fascinated countless readers in contemporary and later generations. There is hardly anyone in China who doesn't know Li Bai, a great poet who stood at the peak of the Tang Dynasty. He has an important position and far-reaching influence in the history of China's poetry development, and can be called the first poet in China.
As the first representative writer in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was a poet with the most works, the highest achievements and the highest reputation at that time, and also another peak of positive romanticism in ancient China after Qu Yuan. Together with Du Fu and others, he promoted and completed the great cause of poetry innovation initiated by Chen Ziang, which opened up a new situation for the prosperity and development of Tang poetry. His works became a glorious chapter in the history of China's poetry, and initiated the golden age of China's ancient poetry. As one of the greatest poets in the history of China literature, Li Bai and Du Fu are also called "Du Li", and Han Yu has a poem saying: "Du Li's articles are there, and the flames are getting longer." Li Bai's achievements in poetry and ode have a great influence on many poets and poets at that time and later, such as Li He, Li Shangyin, Su Shi, Lu You, Xin Qiji and Gong Zizhen.
The way of heaven and earth, from the heart, and then spit it out as an article, this is Li Bai's poem and song. He created a lot of works in his life. His poems pursue the ideal of freedom, expose political darkness, attack powerful people, despise ethical codes, depict the rivers and mountains of the motherland, sympathize with people's sufferings, and praise friendship and affection. In art, it is rich in imagination, bold and strange in exaggeration, full and strong in emotion, magnificent in style, unpredictable in structure and natural and clear in language. The poet's own personality spirit is perfectly integrated with poetry, which is full of endless creativity. Reading Li Bai's poems is also reading him and his life shining like a meteor.
Selected Poems of Li Bai contains many poems handed down from generation to generation by Li Bai, and its chronological form clearly reflects the characteristics of Li Bai's poetic style in different periods, which helps readers to better understand his life through poems in combination with the poet's experience. Among them, there are countless famous sentences, which have been well-known for thousands of years and shocked the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the spiritual world of all readers.