Taoist practitioner. As stated before, the poem was written in A.D. 744, the year that Li Bai was banished from the imperial court of Emperor Xuanzong and the same year he met his great friend, Du Fu. He may have been Li Bai’s poem demonstrates culture, and exhibit an illusion of deep beauty. He expresses his freedom and an adventure with his good friend Du Fu. “His ability to create almost supernatural beauty in tiny poems made of concrete images, his whimsical Taoist sense of humor, and the delicacy of his expression of feelings of love and friendship.” This poem demonstrates Li Bai’s poetry style, emerging and changing from capital poetry to a poem that lacked in simplicity and formal pieces. “Going Up To Sun Terrace,” seems to glamorize
