The style of Li Bai's poems was formed in the most powerful era of the Tang Dynasty, focusing on expressing personal feelings and praising the desire and pursuit of personal value in free life. (History of China Literature) His poems are free and unrestrained, clear and fluent, imaginative and magnificent. He inherited the romantic tradition since The Songs of the South and formed his own unique style.
Du Fu's poetic style was formed in the period of An Shi Rebellion, and gradually took shape in suffering. Du Fu went deep into the society, cared about the sufferings of politics and people's livelihood, and attached importance to realism. He shoulders the heavy responsibility of the country and the nation and faithfully depicts the face of the times and inner feelings. Du Fu's artistic style is gloomy. He inherited Du Fu's realistic style from the middle Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, especially the Jiangxi Poetry School in the Song Dynasty, which took Du Fu as its ancestor. His influence is enormous.
When Li Bai was young, he read a lot of books. "At the age of five, he read hundreds of books, and at the age of ten, he read strange books, endowed with exquisite images." He also fought with Ren Xia, saying that "fifteen good swordsmanship, the prince is everywhere". (History of China Literature) When he was young, he traveled widely. All these have a great influence on the formation of Li Bai's bold and unconstrained character, and also directly lead to the formation of his romantic poetry style. Li Bai values martial arts and despises Confucianism. He is generous with money and likes drinking. His ideal in life is to be detached from things and actively join the WTO. His personality charm is beyond the reach of others.
Du Fu was born in an official family, and his grandfather Du Shenyan was an important poet in the early Tang Dynasty. Therefore, for Du Fu, career and poetry are both family businesses. He once said to his son, "Poetry is my family". Du Fu was deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and he had a desire to help the monarch all his life. In addition, he was poor all his life, which formed his character of caring for the country and the people and caring for the people. Therefore, his poems emphasize realism.
Li Bai has been wandering between being an official and dancing all his life. In Shu Dao Nan, he described the wonderful and breathtaking mountains and rivers on Shu Dao in Qin Dynasty, from which he revealed some worries about society. He said that "it's too high for a yellow crane to cross" and "the sword pagoda is indestructible" may be a metaphor for his depression at that time. In his "It's Hard to Walk", he used "I threw the food bar and cup aside, I couldn't eat or drink, I pulled out my dagger, and I peeped in four directions in vain. I will cross the Yellow River, but ice blocks the ferry until Taihang Mountain is covered with snow "to describe his difficult situation. Because of Gao Lishi Yang's love at that time, these wise men were kept out of the court, so he issued "It's hard to go, it's hard to go. All roads lead to the same goal, but his optimistic nature makes him persistent in his pursuit of ideals. Full of confidence and longing, he sang the strong voice of "I will ride the wind and waves one day, and set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea". He wrote in "Nostalgia at Night in Niuzhu": "I looked at the autumn moon on the deck and missed the old general Xie in vain. I have poems; I can read. He hears others, but it's not mine. "Thank you for the story you met, to show that you didn't meet, and you want a bosom friend. All of the above shows that Li Bai is positive about his career. On the other hand, influenced by Taoism, Li Bai had the idea of escaping from the world from time to time and once lived in seclusion in the mountains. In Lushan, he said, "I am a madman of the Chu people and sang a crazy song arguing with Confucius." Holding a green jade stick in his hand, he bid farewell to the famous Yellow Crane Tower early in the morning. It is a habit of my life that the Five Mountains travel far away to find mountains. "It shows his devotion to Taoism, his mockery of Confucianism, and his feelings of getting rid of the secular and pursuing immortal life. In "Dream on Mount Tianmu", he described absurd dreams and expressed his yearning for the fairy world. Finally, he said that "security can make people rich and make me unhappy", which showed his ambition to lead an honest and clean life. It can be said that Li Bai's life is full of sadness in the contradiction between being born and joining the WTO.
Du Fu is much simpler. He has been seeking an official position all his life. "Obey Confucianism and guard the official, but don't fall into the vegetarian business" ("Carving and Fu Biao"). Throughout his life, he believed that one day he could "make the monarch Yao Shun ascend, and then make the folk customs simple". This spirit has been permeated between the lines of Du Fu's poems, as well as his seven laws "Climbing the Building", "Flowers, as high as my window, hurt the wandering heart, because I see, from this height, everywhere sad. The spring scenery of Jinjiang flooded in, and the clouds on the mountain, ancient, varied and changeable. The imperial court, like the North Star, will not change in the end, and the Western Hills of Kohl will not invade Tibet. However, I feel sorry for the sorrow of a long-lost emperor at dusk and talk to Fu Liang at sunset. " This poem can fully reflect the characteristics of Du Fu's poems, and the scenery at the beginning of the poem leads to the author's mood, which is as touching as "where the petals have fallen like tears and where the lonely bird has sang grief". Later, I wrote about how difficult it is for ten thousand people, and finally I wrote a personal report. He wants to make contributions like Zhuge Liang. The whole poem expresses the connection between mountains and rivers and the changes of society through the ages, and it talks about the infiltration and tolerance of personnel with the help of natural scenery. The combination of natural scenery, national tragedy and personal feelings embodies the poet's depressed and frustrated style. His banks of the Yellow River were recovered by the imperial army, and the news is in this distant west station! The north has been recovered! At first, I couldn't stop crying on my coat. Where are my wife and son? There is not a trace of sadness on their faces. However, I packed my books and poems crazily. On a green spring day, I began to go home, singing my songs loudly and drinking my wine. Come back from this mountain, pass another mountain, go up from the south and then go north-to my own town! . "It is about the joy of the poet after hearing the news after Tang Jun conquered Anshi's lair. The whole poem has left a deep impression on people with its smooth rhyme, sincere emotion and fast rhythm. His poem "Up the Mountain" is neat and neat, and the scenery is lyrical. The first two couplets describe the scenery, and the latter two couplets combine their own aging and come down to the root of being down and out. "Leaves fall like the spray of a waterfall, and I watch the long river roll forward. "This is a famous sentence through the ages.
Poetically speaking, Li Bai is good at ancient songs and May 7th quatrains. His unrestrained personality makes him not stick to the rules. His book Shu Dao Nan is uneven in length. The first two sentences of his book A Farewell to the School Cloud in Xuanzhou Xie Tiao Building, "Those who abandon me can't stay yesterday, and those who disturb my heart are more worried about today" use prose syntax. Du Fu is good at melody and arrangement. Therefore, metrical poems, especially the seven-tone poems, are his strong points. Li Bai is slightly inferior to Du Fu in the beauty of sound and form. From the beauty of style, Li Bai's elegant and heroic style and speech are naturally beyond others' learning. Li Bai speaks his mind, smiles when he is happy, and laughs when he is sad. Most of Du Fu's poems are subtle and tortuous, depressed and frustrated. This is one of the reasons why young people prefer Li Bai and mature people prefer Fu.
Li Bai loves all the beautiful things in real life and throws a contemptuous look at unreasonable phenomena without scruple. This attitude of being imprisoned by reality but unwilling to accept the desire to conquer reality is contrary to Du Fu's realistic spirit of always paying attention to and caring for the fate of the people of the motherland with serious compassion, and it is also the same in essence. In Han Yu's words: "Du Li's article is in full swing." Their artistic achievements and integrity will always be the representatives of China culture.