“Acquainted with the Night” is a poem by a poet who died in what year?
1963
Acquainted with the Night
“Acquainted with the Night” is a poem by Robert Frost.
 It first appeared in the "Virginia Quarterly Review" and was published in 1928 in his collection "West-Running Brook".
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.
 His work was initially published in England before it was published in America.
 He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.
 His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
 One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.
 He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution."
 He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works.
 On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont.
Acquainted with the Night (book)
Acquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World After Dark (or "Acquainted with the Night: A Celebration of the Dark Hours") is a non-fiction book by Christopher Dewdney about various aspects of night.
 It was first published in 2004 by HarperCollins.
 It uses the same title as the Robert Frost poem "Acquainted with the Night".
 The book consists of 14 chapters, with one chapter dedicated to each hour of the night, from 6 pm to 5 am.
 Mini-essays populate each chapter which each follow a theme, like nocturnal creatures, dreams, astronomy, and mythology.
 Other subjects and topics touched upon include science, art, culture, natural history, superstitions, and psychology.
 The book was a finalist for the 2004 Governor General's Awards and for the 2005 Charles Taylor Prize.
 It tied with "Dark Matter: Reading The Bones" for the World Fantasy Award in Anthologies. Fujiwara no Masatada
Fujiwara no Masatada (藤原 雅正 , died 961) was a Japanese poet.
 He was the first son of Fujiwara no Kanesuke, among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and the grandfather of Murasaki Shikibu.
 Kiyotada was his younger brother.
 He married a daughter of Fujiwara no Sadakata; their children include Tametoki, the father of Murasaki.
 He was also acquainted with Ki no Tsurayuki. Himnusz
"Himnusz" is the official national anthem of Hungary.
 It was adopted in the 19th century and the first stanza is sung at official ceremonies.
 The words were written by Ferenc Kölcsey, a nationally renowned poet in 1823, and its currently official musical setting was composed by the romantic composer Ferenc Erkel in 1844, although other less-known musical versions exist.
 The poem bore the subtitle ""A magyar nép zivataros századaiból"" ("From the stormy centuries of the Hungarian people"); it is often argued that this subtitle – by emphasising past rather than contemporary national troubles – was added expressly to enable the poem to pass Habsburg censorship.
 The full meaning of the poem's text is evident only to those well acquainted with Hungarian history. Juan de la Cueva
Juan de la Cueva de Garoza (1543–1612) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.
 He was born in Seville to an aristocratic family; his younger brother Claudio, with whom he spent some time in Guadalajara, Mexico, went on to become an archdeacon and inquisitor.
 He was acquainted with a number of major contemporary intellectual figures, including Fernando de Herrera and Juan de Mal Lara, and took part in the Casa de Pilatos literary academy in Seville.
 After his return to Spain in 1577, he began writing for the stage and produced a total of ten comedies and four tragedies.
 He appears never to have married, though some of his poetical works are dedicated to a Felipa de la Paz.
 After apparently spending some time in Cuenca after 1610, he died in Granada in 1612. Charu Sheel Singh
Charu Sheel Singh (Hindi: चारु शील सिंह , born 1955) is an Indian writer and scholar of English language.
 A treader of the triple path, like Arnold, Eliot and Sri Aurobindo, Charu Sheel Singh is a poet, critic and literary theorist and is not only well acquainted with current schools of thought but also conversant with philosophical theories of the East and the West and the occult traditions, Buddhism and theosophy being among his special areas of interest.
 He is well known for writing poems and criticism in English.
 He is a professor of English literature in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth.
 He received the "Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Akademy Award" and The Best Writer Award by Penguin International.
 He is considered to be one of the best mythifiers of the city of Varanasi and his "Kashi": A Mandala Poem is the only epic in English language on the city of "Kashi" Georges van Vrekhem
Georges Van Vrekhem (Wakken, 28 March 1935 – Auroville, 31 August 2012) was a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking) Belgian journalist, poet and playwright, who was the artistic manager of a professional theater company, the "Nederlands Toneel te Gent".
 He became acquainted with the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in 1964.
 In 1970 he joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, and eight years later, in 1978 he moved to Auroville.
 He has translated as selected writings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and several books of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, Peter Heehs, and Satprem into Dutch.
 Van Vrekhem died during sleep in his Auroville home in Shakti on 31 August 2012. Our Casuarina Tree
The poem begins with the description of the tree.
 The poet says that the creeper has wound itself round the rugged trunk of the Casuarina Tree, like a huge Python.
 The creeper has left deep marks on the trunk of the tree.
 The tree is so strong that it bears the tight hold of the creeper.
 The tree is described as being gallant, and possibly brave, as very few trees could survive in the strangle-hold of this creeper.
 The poet then goes on to describe the life that thrives amidst every facet of the tree.
 The tree is metaphorical said as a giant due to its huge size, strength and boldness.
 The Casuarina Tree is covered with creeper which bears red crimson flowers which appear as though the tree is wearing a colorful scarf.
 Often at night, the garden echoes and it seems to be jubilant and the song (of a nightingale) has no end; it continues till dawn.
 At dawn when the poet opens her window she is delighted to see the Casuarina Tree.
 Mostly in winters a gray baboon is seen sitting on the crest of the tree seeing the sunrise with her younger ones leaping and playing in the tree's boughs.
 The shadow of the tree appears to fall on the huge water tank.
 Toru Dutt says that it is not because of the majestic appearance of the Casuarina Tree that it is dear to her heart and soul, but also that she along with her siblings spent happy moments under it.
 Toru Dutt has brought out the theme of nature as something that shares feeling with humans, that lightens the burden on the heart.
 The poet continues with a description of how strong the image of the tree is, even when in lands far away.
 Even in France and Italy (where the poet studied), she can hear the tree's lament.
 The poet wishes to consecrate the tree's memory and importance for the sake of those who are now dead - and looks ahead to her own death, hoping that the tree be spared obscurity (or that no-one will remember it).
 She immortalizes the tree through this poem like how Wordsworth sanctified the Yew trees of Borrowdale.
 She says "May love defend thee from Oblivion's curse'"- by which she means that she is glad that her love for the Casuarina will protect it from the curse of being forgotten. The Letters of Utrecht
The Letters of Utrecht (Dutch: De Letters van Utrecht ) form an endless poem in the stones of a street in the center of the Dutch city of Utrecht.
 Every Saturday at 13:00, the next letter is hewn into the next cobblestone, intended for as long as there are Saturdays as a monument for the future.
 It takes several years to publish an average sentence.
 Every few years another member of Utrechts' guild of poets extends the poem.
 The poem was started on June 2, 2012 and Utrecht's mayor, Aleid Wolfsen, contributed the first letter hewn at the opening.
 To predate the beginning of the poem to January 1, 2000, the city works department had previously laid 648 stones with the letters of the contributions of five poets into the street.
 Since the opening, characters have been hewn into subsequent stones every Saturday and since early 2013 has continued the poem as its sixth poet and since late 2015 the Iraqi-Dutch became the seventh poet to continue the poem.
 Stones with year numbers mark the planned route and turn the growing line of letters into a meter of time.
 If the citizens continue to fund the making of stones for long enough, the line of poem will itself draw the letters U and T on the map of the city, and future citizens can decide on the future route beyond the year 2350.
 A future there will be, but it is unknown: the poet keeps the continuation of the poem beyond the most recently published letter secret.