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Can you please explain this poem to me tnx

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Title : Vengeful Heaven

by Florante ' s lamentation

just Heaven, where is your wrath?

you take your time in impotence

while the banner of the grossest evil

waves over Albanian land.

All over my hapless country

treason has establish its reign,

while goodness and wisdom lie prostrate,

buried alive by grievous grief.

Those who do good are burled

into the sea by mockery and strife;

every good man is buried.

the faithless and the evil of heart

are the ones enthroned in praise,

and every Perfidios, Bestial man

is honored with fragrant incense.

Teachery and evil tilt their heads in pride

while virtue is timid and bowed;

godly justice lies groveling and helpless,

all it can do is shed Copius tears.

And every mouth from which well out

words that spread the good and true

is quickly cracked and forced apart

by the sword of most abject death.

Ah, perfidious desire for wealth and power

ah, covetousness for honor fleeting like the wind,

you're the cause of every ill

and of all over Albania.

All this ,o merciful heaven,

you see from above, and yet allow,

the fountainhead of virtue and wisdom,

you let brutality submerge them.

Swing your powerful sword arm,

let the saber of fury lash out;

upon Albania send down

revenge against all evil hearts.

Why, o merciful heaven, have you turned deaf,

why ignore my fervent plea?

to one down-trodden and despised,

is it possible you turn ears away?

But then which mortal man can comprehend

your holy secret, my awesome god?

Nothing on the face of the earth transpires

that you didn't mean to bring some good.

Alas, to whom then can i cling for support,

where shall i fling my every plaint,

if heaven itself has refused to heed

the wail of my melancholy voice?

If you have willed this suffering

dear heaven, i can bear its weight,

if only you'd touch laura's heart

once in a while with thoughts of me.

For in the sea of grief and woe,

this broad expanse of tears I'm crossing,

Laura's thoughts upon her fallen love

would give my heart its sole delight.

a drop of thought from my dearest love

aroused by my plight brings the greatest

bliss,

enough to overwhelm the misery and woe

that treacherous and heartless men have laid on me.

Bound by these ropes, i imagine myself

laid out a corpse in its cold sleep

but mourned by the woman i love,

I rise from the dead to eternal life.

When in my mind i fumblingly grope

for the love two of us had shared,

the tears she shed whenever i grieved

turn all these suffering to joy.

But woe, alas for my ill fate!

of what use are those days of love

when now my love lies Unpertured

yielding herself in another's lap.

Against the chest of count Adolfo

I can see my beloved laura learning...

death, where now the fierceness you were wont to have?

I want this pain i feel to end.

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  1. No, we have other things to work on, alright?

    If you wanna ask questions, ask them short.


  2. This is an English version of Florante's lament in th forest. Chapter 1 of Balagatas' Florante at Laura.

    He is blaming the Lord for what had happened in Albania. He is asking the Lord, why? why have you done this to me? and stuff like that. He is thinking about his love, Laura. He thinks that Laura is with Adolfo and that Laura had forgotten him already. He just simply wants to disappear and end the pain he is feeling.

    He is depressed of what had happened to him and his ill fate.

    Its quite easy to understand if you know the story.  

  3. Title's vengeful heaven?

    Must be somethin' about that.

  4. dude!!!!!that's really difficlt...y dnt u ask ur teacher?????dat's d best way out...

  5. Why?

  6. a picture of world's near end,

    painted by one with poor faith in God and

    inspired by a love goes bad...

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