After observing that "a girl's face bends to gaze at the wax's fate," the speaker of a poem by this author declares that "Wax is for women: Bronze is for men."
After observing that "a girl's face bends to gaze at the wax's fate," the speaker of a poem by this author declares that "Wax is for women: Bronze is for men." The speaker observes that "Even as we freeze in Lethe we'll remember / the ten heavens the earth cost us," in the 103rd poem from this author's inaugural collection Stone, which exhorts: "Let us praise the freedom of twilight, brothers." This author declared that "I have studied the Science of departures" in the title poem of his major collection, (*) Tristia. This author, whose entire corpus was memorized and published by his wife Nadezhda, wrote about a "Kremlin highlander" who "rolls the executions on his tongue like berries" in his most famous poem. For 10 points, name this Soviet poet who was arrested and eventually put to death for penning the satirical "Stalin Epigram."
After observing that "a girl's face bends to gaze at the wax's fate," the speaker of a poem by this author declares that "Wax is for women: Bronze is for men."
Osip Mandelstam [or Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam]