Tadeusz Różewicz

Anxiety, published in 1947 as Niepokoj, helped define Rozewicz's stripped-down postwar poetic style. Its plain language answered the moral shock of World War II without ornamental rhetoric.

Yes. Rozewicz served in the Polish underground Home Army during the German occupation, and the war shaped much of his writing.

The Card Index, first staged around 1960, is one of his major plays. Its fragmented structure fits the same postwar world as his poetry, where identity and memory are damaged rather than neatly restored.

Milosz often works through historical and metaphysical argument, and Herbert often uses classical masks and irony. Rozewicz is more radically pared down, using blunt, broken speech after the violence of the 1940s.