Li Bo And Du Fu's Tang Poetry

Tang Poetry refers to the poetry of the Tang Dynasty, which was the most important part of China’s three-millennial old history of poetry. The two greatest of the Chinese poets are Li Bo and Du Fu. During the Tang Dynasty, every poem was required to have grace, since it was a form of social communication and not art. Both wrote amazing poems describing events in a vivid way. Both Li Bo and Du Fu wrote outstanding poems that evolved around the theme of the aftermath of rebellions.
Li Bo wrote most of his poems based on moments of history making it sound miracously. One of his poems, South of the Walls We Fought, describes the gruesome aftermath of the war that was going on. As described in the poem, men who went to war were going with false

hope, because most of them died. “ Kites and ravens peck men’s guts,/ fly with them dangling from their beaks/ and hang them high…” (Ln 19-21). This text demonstrates that whatever was left of the bodies, the kites and ravens ate them and took them to their own nest, where pieces were hanging. Du Fu also wrote poems that were based on several significant events from history. Ballad of the Firewood Vendors is one of Du Fu’s poems that was based on the cost of war as well. “Kuizhou women, hair half gray,/ forty, fifty, and still no husbands;/ since the ravages of rebellion, harder than ever…” (Ln 1-3). This text signifies that women grew old without getting the chance to get married because most of the men that had been sent to war and even killed.
These two authors wrote similar poems and over similar subjects. These poems have an interesting style of writing and the way it is used makes it more engaging. Their poems have stanzas that use imagery to engage the reader with the writing. The authors wrote these poems in a very descriptive and dramatic style for the intention of inspiring the audience to visualize what they are reading.