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In an ekphrastic poem, a poet explores a work of visual art, such as a drawing, sculpture, or painting. Robert Hayden's 1994 poem "Monet's Waterlilies," for example, meditates on Claude Monet's 1899 painting Water Lilies; Saad Ali's 2020 poem "This Town," _____ takes a painting as its subject: Ivan Aivazovsky's 1859 work Lunar Night on the Black Sea.