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Before modernism: the Romantics: 1800-1850 The Modern Era begins in late 1800s and becomes very popular after World War I in 1918. It takes place in the US and Europe. The Guest Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward Nothing is changed: against the dining-room windowshard grains of whirling snow still beat.I am what I was,but a man came to me. “What do you want?” I asked.“To be with you in hell,” he said.I laughed. “It’s plain you meanto have us both destroyed.” He lifted his thin handand lightly stroked the flowers:“Tell me how men kiss you,tell me how you kiss.” His torpid eyes were fixedunblinking on my ring.Not a single muscle stirredin his clear, sardonic face. Oh, I see: his game is that he knowsintimately, ardently,there’s nothing from me he wants,I have nothing to refuse. 1914, Russia