Acmeist

He was Acmeist in spades.

As such, they reveal a central concern in Acmeist practice, but do not necessarily specify qualities which are uniquely Acmeist.

The poem is also Acmeist in the speaker’s countering of his previous emotional abandon (“a thousand sorrows”) with his present moderation—a simple declaration of love instead of exhaustion and yearning.

The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, who died in 1966 at the age of 77, belongs to the latter category. One of the leading poets of her era, she was a member of the Acmeists, a group of poets who sought—unlike the mystical Symbolists who preceded them—to write about the tangible world.