Li Bo And Du Fu's Tang Poetry

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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

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