Milan Rakic - Belgrade, Serbia
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N 44° 49.193 E 020° 27.192
34T E 456768 N 4963088
Milan Rakic was a Serbian poet.
Waymark Code: WM12AZX
Location: Serbia
Date Posted: 04/17/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member fi67
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Close to the Kalemegdan Park in Belgrade a monument for Milan Rakic has been set up. The bronze monument show the upper half of Milan Rakic, holding a book in his left hand, on a stone pedestal. The inscription shows only his name in Cyrillic script.

Milan Rakic

"Milan Rakic (18 September 1876 – 30 June 1938) was a Serbian poet-diplomat.

He focused on dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse, which allowed him to achieve beautiful rhythm and rhyme in his poems. He was quite a perfectionist and therefore only published two collections of poems (1903, 1912). He wrote largely about death and non-existence, keeping the tone sceptical and ironic. Two of his most well-known poems are An Honest Song (Iskrena pesma), A Desperate Song (Ocajna pesma), Jefimija, Simonida and At Gazi-Mestan (Na Gazi-Mestanu). He was a member of the Serbian Royal Academy (1934).

He finished elementary school (grade school) and high school (gymnasium) in Belgrade. He completed law school in Paris. It was in Paris that he, like Jovan Ducic, came under the influence of French Symbolist poets. They both had learned to admire French culture and had dreamed of a better world after the war. After returning to Belgrade from Paris he became a diplomat (also like Ducic) for the Serbian (and later Yugoslav) government and remained in that job until nearly his death, representing the country abroad."

Source and further information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Rakic

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