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Hello Brothers and Sisters,
I hope that you are in a good mood. I have two question and will be thankful for your answers.
The first question is:
Who is considered as the master poet of the pessimism poetry ?
The second question is:
and also who is considered as the master poet who wrote in the two great wars?
thanks a lot
Uh, well I've never thought of pessimistic poetry as a group before. Um, many post-modernist could be considered pessimistic, but that's really a pretty vague categorization that I don't know what to do with.
As for war poetry from the World Wars, you tend not to have war poets from both wars. There's a strong set from WWI, Wilfred Owen probably being one of the most famous in English.
WWII didn't really produce any remarkable war poetry in English, that I can think of at least. There's a lot of good holocaust poetry, but that was written in retrospect after the war.
Some might see Sylvia Plath as on the pessimistic side, or on the "dark" side, which makes her challenging. I think a lot of people would have liked to have known her and maybe lifted her out of despondency.
First of all, I thank you kindly OrphanPip and byquist for your replies..
I will read deeply about Wilfred Owen and sylvia Plath as you told me. I read about the Owen in brief and i found his life is very hard and miserable. I like this poet from the begining and i will read about him and his work as soon as i find the perfect mood to read.
again, thank you very much
best wishes
Keith Douglas 1920- 1944 is classified as a War Poet. He was killed at the Normandy landings (called D Day.)
The pessimist poet of most repute is probably Leopardi, or in a stretch, Du Fu 杜甫. Plath to me seems the poet of mentally unstable hormonal teenagers, but, then again, I do not care for her work much.
Have to agree with JBI, the king of melancholy is Leopardi
As for greatest war poet of the world wars, I would say Sassoon for wwI, for ww2 I am unsure.