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cpinatsi

Who is your favour Greek poet?

I love Cavafis. And Karyotakis. And the language of Dionysios Solomos.
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Socrates was not a poet, and Herodot was not one either, and of course Ceasar was neither a poet nor Greek.

    



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Elaine
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Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Konstantinos Kavafis are my top 3. I adore them.

I also like Karyotakis, Papatsonis, Sachtouris and Seferis. And Elytis to some extent.

From the ancient poets, Archilochus and Sappho.

ADDED: I also ADORE greek folksongs and poems.

"Ποιος είδε τέτοιον πόλεμο να πολεμούν τα μάτια,
χωρίς μαχαίρια και σπαθιά να γένουνται κομμάτια";

:)


Jelena L.
It's interesting that I like everything that I ever read from Greek poetry, and I find it among the best (national) in the world: M. Anagnostakis, Ritsos, Nikos Engonopoulos, Elytis, they are all great, but I was thinking who is my favorite.
I love Cavafi too, very much, but between him and Seferis - I choose Seferis, because on some personal, individual level, his poems mean much more to me.
"Sinks whoever raises the great stones;
I've raised these stones as long as I was able
I've loved these stones as long as I was able
these stones, my fate...."
Seferis/MYCENAE


Zoi ((Ζωή))
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Hi Cristine,
Another beautiful question!
My favorite one is our Nobelist SEFERIS. Then, another Nobelist poet, Elytis.
I like Seferis very much, because he has a unique style, which combines poetry forms of the past and present.
He is difficult to study, you need to have a good knowledge of history and very very good knowledge of greek language to understand him.
His language is something that I admire so much! I like this kind of...uninformal language, the archaisms. I adore his stoic and skeptical style, he is not depressant like Kariotakis (I like him too), and not so optimist and lyric like Elytis, but he "thinks" and "worries" a lot in his poems. His poems STILL express the anxiety of modern human about the future and they are always contemporary, even if they refere to the years of Greek Dictatorship.
Who doesn't know his poem for "Ardieos tyrannus"? But still he is a "difficult" poet, whereas Elytis is much more "surrealistic", optimistic and "pleasant" and "erotic".

FOR EVERYONE THAT IS NOT GREEK:
Give a chance to Seferis, you won't regret it (his poems are translated to many languages).


dvatwork
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My fave is CAVAFIS, and also Kalvos, Aristomenis Provelengios, and Palamas.

Even though he is not a poet, I LOVE the poetically written prose of Stratis Myrivilis.


io
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cavafis of course


Vasiliki-Βασιλική
As a Zakynthian i ll say Solomos and Kalvos....
:)


exo apta dontia
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CAVAFY = #1

I also like Andreas Kalvos, Lorentzos Mavilis and of course, Palamas.


Cle@r Sky 07
Ritsos and Elytis... and Solomos


Katerina P
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I love Seferis, Ritsos and Gatsos. No need to mention our great ancient poets. There is no comparison......They are the top.


Net
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Ancients: Homer, he was and still he is great. He written the epics before the classic age and those epics were a main inspiration for the future generations. We can say that they were a link among all the Greeks through centuries and a basic element in the formation of the Hellenic civilization.

Modern: Kavadias... I don't like traveling with ships though :)

Thumb up to Elaine for reminding us the wealth of folklore poetry.


baseballkrba_10
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You have to go with Sapho, the only women lyric poet known. She is amazing...well was amazing. After reading her poetry, you will only regret that we have lost so much of it to history, and much of it is just fragments.


zoltan
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EURIPIDES the last of the tragists..basicly secluded him self to write which i think is a most important tool when you put thought on paper ...tablet in this case..lol


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Z213: Exit by Dimitris Lyacos
Page 5

A few hours more, station, deserted, a dirt road for inside the town, mud, mud, blankets outside, mouldering houses of tin, the shattered pylon further behind, not even a car, rubbish, two children setting fire to a heap, two or three other fires on the horizon, houses, the acid smell stronger, pieces and pieces of asphalt, houses of cement blocks, few people, half-open doors, half-light, the mattress as if it were soaked, that milk, the cramp in the stomach and dizziness, when I awoke, I hurried to make it before it got dark, a bit by chance and from what I remembered, asked questions, the other side back to the bridge, the murmur of water, the trees blackening but I could still see, it was in front of me almost as soon as I entered. What are you doing here, sit for a while beside you, if you could also back then, if someone bent down, heard you while still you could be heard, your eyes that were gleaming the eyes growing dim, the pain growing dim, with how many more did they bring you, the bell, silence as they lowered you down, stifled song and a pause, the murmur of water. I am cold, I leave among other names, photos that look at you yet do not see, the sun now again at its end. On the road back, on the plain, a breath, tepid, as a last breath, and a gleam, the river falling behind, the town mute as before, with some wine on the end of a table, the Bible being erased, between its pages the words of a stranger, between him I write wherever I find a no-man’s land.


It sounds better in Greek.

Λιγες ωρες ακομα, σταθμος, αδειος, χωματοδρομος για μεσα στην πολη, λασπη, λασπη, εξω κουβερτες, μαραμενα σπιτια από τενεκε, λιγο πιο πισω ο τσακισμενος πυλωνας, κανενα αυτοκινητο, σκουπιδια, δυο παιδια που αναβουν ενα σωρο, δυο τρεις άλλες φωτιες στον οριζοντα, σπιτια, πιο ξινη η μυρωδια, ασφαλτος κομματια κομματια, τσιμεντολιθος σπιτια, λιγος κοσμος, μισανοιχτες πορτες, ημιφως, το στρωμα σα να ηταν βρεμενο, εκεινο το γαλα, το σφιξιμο στο στομαχι και ζαλη, όταν ξυπνησα, σηκωθηκα να προλαβω προτου σκοτεινιασει, λιγο στην τυχη κι απ ο,τι θυμομουν, ρωτησα, απ’ την άλλη μερια, πισω στη γεφυρα, η βοη του νερου, τα δεντρα που μαυριζαν αλλα εβλεπα ακομη, ηταν μπροστα μου σχεδον μολις μπηκα. Τι κανεις εδω, διπλα σου να καθησω για λιγο, αν μπορουσες και τοτε, αν εσκυψε καποιος, αν σε ακουσε οσο ακουγοσουν ακομη, τα ματια σου που ελαμπαν τα ματια που θαμπωναν, ο πονος που θαμπωνε, με ποσους αλλους σε φερανε εδω, η καμπανα, σιωπη καθως σε κατεβαζαν κατω, πνιγμενο τραγουδι και παυση, η βοη του νερου. Κρυωνω, φευγω στα αλλα ονοματα αναμεσα, φωτογραφιες που σε κοιταζουν χωρις να μπορουν, ο ηλιος που τωρα τελειωσε παλι. Στο δρομο για πισω, στην πεδιαδα μια χλιαρη, σαν τελευταια πνοη, και μια λαμψη, το ποταμι που απομακρυνεται, η πολη βουβη όπως πριν, με λιγο κρασι σε ένα τραπεζι στην ακρη, η βιβλος που σβηνεται, αναμεσα της τα λογια ενός ξενου, αναμεσα του που γραφω οπου βρω μια ζωνη νεκρη.


Lampimann
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sokrates wasn't a poet i guess...i would just stick to herodot, pretty classy


Evan
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Homer


rasberry
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Homer ya


Tom J [CLoNeD]
homer the bling poet he is pretty good he wrote the llad and the odysey i love the book but hate the movie although i have never seen it.


delectable
Not sure if Homer counts, but I like him.


ღ♥Goxy♥ღ
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Cavafis by far.

I've heard many times that like flags and foustanellas, and other more patriotic fetishes, Greek poetry inscribes notions of national, linguistic and generic purity. It is the measure of what is most Greek. I can identify with this opinion very very easily, because that is what poetry is to me - the fairest expression of a national being. Cavafis does this magnificently: it is all in one, his verse: homeland, mother tongue, and lyric tradition...

I love the Nobel Laureate poets, George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, too, but not as much as Cavafis.

I've read all of his work in English and Serbian, and I hope that some day I'll be able to read&understand his verse in Greek:
http://cavafis.compupress.gr/index2.htm


KaybeeAl
Socrates


Thumper
Cesear.


JOHN H
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bumholecretes





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