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Graz is the capital of Styria and second - largest city in Austria after Vienna . On 1 January 2017 , it had a population of 320 , 587 ( of which 286 , 686 had principal residence status ). In 2014 , the population of the Graz Larger Urban Zone who had principal residence status stood at 605 , 143 . In ___MASK45___ , haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in ___MASK39___ often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of ___MASK45___ haiku . A haiku in ___MASK39___ is a very short poem in the ___MASK39___ language , following to a greater or lesser extent the form and style of the Japanese haiku . A typical haiku is a three - line observation about a fleeting moment involving nature . Poetry ( the term derives from a variant of the ___MASK4___ term , " poiesis ", " making ") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language  such as phonaesthetics , sound symbolism , and metre  to evoke meanings in addition to , or in place of , the prosaic ostensible meaning . Styria (, ___MASK60___ /) is a state or " Bundesland ", located in the southeast of Austria . In area it is the second largest of the nine Austrian federated states , covering . It borders Slovenia and the Austrian states of Upper Austria , Lower Austria , Salzburg , Burgenland , and Carinthia . The population ( as of ) was . The capital city is Graz which had 276 , 526 inhabitants at the beginning of 2015 . Imma von Bodmershof ( née Emma Lilly Isolde von Ehrenfels ) ( August 10 , 1895 -- August 26 , 1982 ) was an Austrian poet born in Graz . She received the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1958 for her work Sieben Handvoll Salz ( Seven Handfuls of Sand ) , a novel set in Sicily . She was engaged to be married to and influenced by the works of Norbert von Hellingrath . She had a talent for Haiku writing and published several volumes . Imma was the daughter of Baron Christian von Ehrenfels , the founder of the modern structural Gestalt psychology in Austria . She was also the sister of Umar Rolf Baron Ehrenfels , an orientalist and anthropologist who converted to Islam . Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin ( 20 March 1770  7 June 1843 ) was a major ___MASK86___ lyric poet , commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism . Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of ___MASK86___ Idealism , particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his seminary roommates and fellow Swabians Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling . A poet is a person who writes poetry . Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others . A poet may simply be a writer of poetry , or may perform their art to an audience . Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It constitutes an autonomous Region of Italy , along with surrounding minor islands , officially referred to as " Regione Siciliana " ( in ___MASK72___ , Sicilian Region ). Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria . Vienna is Austria ' s primary city , with a population of about 1 . 8 million ( 2 . 6 million within the metropolitan area , nearly one third of Austria ' s population ), and its cultural , economic , and political centre . It is the 7th - largest city by population within city limits in the European Union . Until the beginning of the 20th century , it was the largest ___MASK86___ - speaking city in the world , and before the splitting of the Austro - Hungarian Empire in World War I , the city had 2 million inhabitants . Today , it has the second largest number of ___MASK86___ speakers after Berlin . Vienna is host to many major international organizations , including the United Nations and OPEC . The city is located in the eastern part of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic , Slovakia , and Hungary . These regions work together in a European Centrope border region . Along with nearby Bratislava , Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants . In 2001 , the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site . Norbert von Hellingrath ( 21 March 1888  14 December 1916 ) was a ___MASK86___ literary scholar whose main contribution to literary scholarship is the first complete edition of the works of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin .