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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 1894 poem "Monet's Waterlilies," for example, meditates on Claude Monet's 1899 painting Water Lilies; Elizabeth Alexander's 2001 poem "Islands Number Four," ________ takes a painting as its subject: Agnes Martin's 1961 work Islands No. 4.