I have two questions..please help me.

[المتسكع]

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

[OrphanPip]

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.

[byquist]

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.

[المتسكع]

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

[Seasider]

Keith Douglas 1920- 1944 is classified as a War Poet. He was killed at the Normandy landings (called D Day.)

[JBI]

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.

[Alexander III]

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.