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Li Bai

Historical Figure
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Tang dynasty Chinese poet celebrated for romantic, wine-fueled verses on nature and exile

Detailed Definition
Li Bai (Li Po) embodied Daoist spontaneity and lyrical freedom, contrasting with Du Fu’s Confucian gravity. Poets cite him as a symbol of poetic abandon, the wandering immortal, and the fusion of natural beauty with melancholic transcendence.
Example
Example in poetry:
Li Bai, drunk under moon’s soft gleam, wrote verses like a celestial stream; Poets praise his romantic flights—mountains, rivers, wine, and nights; “Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon” inspires stanzas where solitude is boon; His Daoist spirit, wild and free, rejects courtly hypocrisy; In translation, Li Bai’s lines still soar—wine cup raised to cosmic door; His legacy: poetry as spontaneous joy, where earth and heaven deploy.
Additional Notes
Li Bai (701–762), one of China’s greatest poets, known for his romantic, wine-loving, and Daoist-infused verse; in poetry, Li Bai symbolizes lyrical freedom, spontaneity, and communion with nature—his influence extends globally through translations by Pound and others; useful for analyzing poems on exile, moonlight, or the transcendent moment in world poetic traditions.
Also Known As
Li Po Li Taibai
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