Li Bai's Poetic Style

Li Bai's poetic style was romantic and all-encompassing, inheriting the poetic revolution advocated by Chen Zi'ang, opposing the formalism of the Southern Qi and Xiao and Liang, and sweeping away the soft and flamboyant style of literature since the Southern Dynasty. Both in content and form, Tang poetry has been creatively developed.

Li's poems were rich in personality, with strong subjective lyricism, and the contents showed the rebellious spirit of defying vulgarity, resisting and not pandering to the powerful and the rich, and glorified chivalry and immortality, and he was known as the "Poetry Chivalry" and "Poetry Immortal", and was also known as Li Bai, the Poetry Immortal, to the later generations.

Li's poems are rich in imagination, peculiar in structure, extremely exaggerated, vivid in metaphor, and utilize a lot of myths and legends.

Li's poetry sings of the majestic nature, good at describing and singing mountains and rivers, bold and unrestrained, disdainful of the subtle sculpture and the arrangement of the couplet, but with a bold, unpredictable techniques and lines, painting the impression and feelings in the mind, creating a clear image of the art, and the majestic and unrestrained style.

Li Bai was good at using the language of music and folk songs, which was seldom decorated and natural. The spirit of Lefu and the use of the language of folk songs have reached a stage of extreme maturity and liberation.

Expanded information:

Li Bai's poetry is broad in material, rich in imagination, bold and unrestrained, and is the crown of the Tang Dynasty poetry. Later poets such as Su Shi, Lu You and Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, Gao Qi in the Ming Dynasty and Gong Zizhen in the Qing Dynasty were all y influenced by Li Bai's poetry.

He Zhizhang praised Li Bai as the "Heavenly Banished Immortal" (an immortal who was relegated from the heavenly realm to the mortal world). Du Fu spoke highly of Li Bai, praising his poems as "astonishing the winds and rain" and "weeping the ghosts and gods", and as unrivaled and outstanding in the world.

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