Li Bai's poems has great artistic appeal. As a rornantic poet, he brought into play all means of romantic expression and achieved perfect unity between content and form in his poetry. Li Bai's poetry has an intense subjective and self-expressive tendency, and his emotions were always expressed with momentum of an avalanche.
Extreme exaggeration, apt comparison and profound imagination effected a high realism. When reading the lines, "Slashing water with the blade of my sword, it flows on all the more I raise my goblet, drown my dolour deep, yet it waxeth doubly sore," readers cannot help being moved by the despair a midst the grandiloquence. This expressive technique is especially seen in poems Traveling to Tianmu Mountain in a Dream: A Parting Song and Difficult is the way to Shu.
Li Bai often made extensive use of technique involving imagery, exaggeration, analogy and personification in his poems,concocting a vision of fantasy and mystique, in language that is brisk, lively and refined.
Li Bai also wrote a number of poems from various viewpoints, including the personae of women. For example, he wrote several poems in the Zi Ye, or "Lady Midnight" style, as well as Han folk-ballad style poems.
Horace
Horace’s lyric poetry comprises his seventeen Epodes, and 103 Odes in four books. The former, which include some of his early work, are on a variety of political and satirical themes, with a few love poems. Most are written