/lit/ - Literature

This is my impression. Please correct me if you disagree. But I feel that Dufu and Libai are both people that see life as being very bleak and hopeless. But unlike Libai who sees this awfulness and surrenders to hedonism, Dufu takes that despair and uses it as motivation to keep going. He doesn't compose poetry to amuse himself, he does it to consecrate what he sees as important in life as a rebellion against the dismal tide.