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The poem is in blank verse and mainly uses iambic pentameter. [2] [3] The poem was inspired by Andrea del Sarto, originally named Andrea d'Agnolo, [4] a renaissance artist. The historical del Sarto was born in Florence, Italy on July 16, 1486 and died in Florence, Italy on September 29, 1530. [4] Del Sarto was the pupil of Piero di Cosimo.
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. [ 2 ] He won the 2007 National Book Award [ 3 ] and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [ 4 ] for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. [ 5 ]
Robert William Geoffrey Gray (born 23 February 1945) is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic. He has been described as "an Imagist without a rival in the English-speaking world" and "one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English".
Rome has also been called in ancient times simply "Urbs" (central city), [23] from urbs roma, or identified with its ancient Roman initialism of SPQR, the symbol of Rome's constituted republican government. Furthermore, Rome has been called Urbs Aeterna (The Eternal City), Caput Mundi (The Capital of the world), Throne of St. Peter and Roma ...
Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) [1] was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school.
Roma Eterna is a science fiction fixup novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in 2003, which presents an alternative history in which the Roman Empire survives to the present day. Each of the ten chapters was first published as a short story, six of them in Asimov's Science Fiction , between 1989 and 2003.
As a poet and intellectual, Duncan's presence was felt across many facets of popular culture.His name is prominent in the history of pre-Stonewall gay culture and in the emergence of bohemian socialist communities of the 1930s and 1940s, in the Beat Generation, and in the cultural and political upheaval of the 1960s, influencing occult and gnostic circles of the time.
The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.