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This poet wrote that "I'm to go back to my gate, anyhow" in a poem that opens by stating "To us, separation is just entertainment." Â This author claimed that "I was not here for hundreds of years, / But nothing changed for ages here" in a poem in which Tashkent is referred to as "my dear Asian home," "The Moon in a Zenith." Â "The flame has drowned in crystal" in one poem by this author in which the speaker asks "what have poets, in any case, to do with sin" and calls the foulest of sinners "grace incarnate" when compared with (*) "Prince Charming." Â This poet questioned how the "white nights" would appear to her son, who was imprisoned for seventeen months, in a poem including the section "Crucifixion." Â For 10 points, name this Russian author of "Poem Without a Hero" and "Requiem."
This poet wrote that "I'm to go back to my gate, anyhow" in a poem that opens by stating "To us, separation is just entertainment."
Anna Akhmatova