Milan Rakić
Milan Rakić | |
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| Born | 18 September 1876 Belgrade, Principality of Serbia |
| Died | 30 June 1938 (aged 61) Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Resting place | Belgrade New Cemetery |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, diplomat |
| Nationality | Serbian |
Milan Rakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Ракић; 18 September 1876 – 30 June 1938) was a Serbian poet-diplomat and academic.
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 three collections of poems (1903, 1912, 1924). He wrote largely about death and non-existence, keeping the tone sceptical and ironic. Some of his most well-known poems are An Honest Song (Iskrena pesma), A Desperate Song (Očajna pesma), Jefimija, Simonida and At Gazi-Mestan (Na Gazi-Mestanu). He was a member of the Serbian Royal Academy (1934).