Li Bai mainly lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, so his poetic style was bold and unrestrained, full of romanticism. Du Fu mainly lived in the Mid-Tang Dynasty. The influence of the Anshi Rebellion and the separatist rule of feudal lords on life made Du Fu's poetry reflect reality and have a realist style.
Li Bai's achievements in Yuefu, song lines and quatrains are the highest. His song lines completely break all the inherent formats of poetry creation, with nothing to rely on, and various brushwork techniques, reaching a magical realm of unpredictable and swaying at will. Li Bai's quatrains are natural, lively, elegant and unrestrained, and can express endless emotions in concise and clear language.
Among the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Jue, and Wang Changling and other Qi Jue wrote very well. Li Bai was the only one who was good at both the Five Jue and the Seven Jue and reached the same extreme level.
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Li Bai's poems are majestic and elegant, with extremely high artistic achievements. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with a majestic and unrestrained style, handsome and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the unity of content and art.
He was called the "Exiled Immortal" by He Zhizhang, and most of his poems mainly described landscapes and expressed inner emotions. Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes weeping ghosts and gods", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poems.
Li Bai's poems are full of self-expression and have a strong subjective lyrical color, and the expression of emotions has an overwhelming momentum. He and Du Fu are called "Big Li Du" (Li Shangyin and Du Mu are called "Little Li Du").