Ancient Chinese poems were written because they were needed, sometimes during a marriage somebody would read out a romantic poem. 李白 wrote poems to remind him of home and all of the places that he missed. 李白 wrote them because his family wanted him to travel around a lot and being a poet was the only occupation there was for travelling unless you counted being a soldier but 李白 enjoyed life and did not want to let it go, this is why all of 李白’s poems are about giving life to something rather than taking away life from an object such as an animal.
杜甫 wrote about ceremonies and rarely about war. He wrote about war because he wanted to show people what war did to a country and that in reality war was horrible and a terrifying thing to be a part of.
曹植 wrote many poems and his most famous poem would definitely have to be 七步诗 otherwise known as the Quatrain of Seven Steps. Quatrain of Seven Steps was made when his brother made him go to court and was about to kill him unless he made a poem within seven steps. In other words he had to walk seven steps and make up a poem. He made it and his brother spared his life.
杜甫 wrote about ceremonies and rarely about war. He wrote about war because he wanted to show people what war did to a country and that in reality war was horrible and a terrifying thing to be a part of.
曹植 wrote many poems and his most famous poem would definitely have to be 七步诗 otherwise known as the Quatrain of Seven Steps. Quatrain of Seven Steps was made when his brother made him go to court and was about to kill him unless he made a poem within seven steps. In other words he had to walk seven steps and make up a poem. He made it and his brother spared his life.