The message of the poem Laura, written by Petrarch and translated by Morris Bishop is that of a love that can't be because of of the two implied in it is not free. Laura was the woman Petrarch fell in love with when he abandoned the idea of becoming a priest. Although he was very interested in her, she rejected him because she was already married.
Through Laura's lines a person that is considered an angel, and therefore will live forever, is unveiled before our eyes. She is described as the ideal woman, but she is also unreachable to the author. Laura is the love everyone deserves to find, but who only a few do.
10. a prayer that her love will live eternally
Saying that she hopes God allows that her love will live on after death shows that she wants a love that lives forever
11. c. "Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow and plough"
This shows what he has done to his land to make it his own and how hard he has worked on it
12. d. "The land's sharp features seemed to be/the Century's corpse outleant"
This shows that the land basically resembles a corpse which shows how powerful an effect nature can have on shaping land.
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to set off introductory phrases and clauses
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