Question
Almost verbless poems in this language like “Storm in the sky in the evening” inspired this language’s Imaginism movement. A poet compared himself to Anne Frank in a poem in this language about the site of an atrocity where “no monument stands.” A thick-fingered man who “forges decrees” and “rolls executions on his tongue” was described in an “Epigram” in this language by an (*) Acmeist (“ACK-me-ist”) poet. The section “Instead of a Preface” opens a poem in this language about the imprisonment of its author’s son, “Requiem.” This language of “Babi Yar” is used in a poem whose title character duels Lensky and rejects Tatiana. For 10 points, name this language used by Anna Akhmatova (“akh-MAT-oh-vah”) and the author of Eugene Onegin (“ohn-YAY-gin”), Alexander Pushkin. ■END■
ANSWER: Russian [or Russkiy] (The power clues are Afanasy Fet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s “Babi Yar”, and Osip Mandelstam’s “Stalin Epigram.”)
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - European - Poetry> ~25348~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
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