HEre m wikk explain this poem paragraph by paragraph

Since apparently the extent of the average user's "literature" knowledge stops somewhere between comic books and taking pictures of one's "book shelf," one serious thread certainly cant hurt.
For those who don't know (all of you), the greener banner of the captured flagship with "allah" written on it over 28,000 times in gold thread was returned to the roaches in 1964-65 after the conclusion of Vatican II, with no reciprocal demand for either the return of Hagia Sophia into a Church or even some kind og apology or payment for Marco Antonio Bragadin (who was skinned alive by a Jew butcher at the instruction of the head turk despise a promise of safe passage from him and his men).
It's fucking amazing how few people know this story (which, btw, given the Jewish involvement in sending arrows over the wall during the siege of Malta, the butchery of Bragadino and other acts of high kikery earned them yet another expulsion.
This is also why in Shakespeare Othello, the Moor (renegades were not uncommon on both sides), he comes back from fighting " the general enemy Turk." Same sort of thing in "The Merchant of Venice," where the Jews had been expelled and then just recently allowed back in, and Shylock wants to get his revenge by cutting up a Christian, and his Talmudic reasoning is used against him-- his daughter Jessica converts and marries a Christian and gets his fortune, and Shylock himself is forced to convert to have his life spared. This is also proof that Shylok had no "faith" in the sense that he relieved in "God," by rather he was in al aspects a Moloch worshiper who simply wanted to see his perceived enemies suffer.

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"White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;
There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,
It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard,
It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips,
For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.
They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,
The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;
The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;
From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,
And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun."

Here the narrator is describing Constantinople. Sort of a mix between "hanging gardens" that Alexander conquered from Xeres and the one referenced in Yetas' "Sailing to Byzantium." It's not a real place, but at the same time it is. You'll notice no mention of the Sultan's harems slave girls, since this is purely an "intellectul paradise" modeled on ancient Greece. Fountains and Gardens? Yes. But the oiled girls dancing ecstatically while worshiping the cult pf Helen? No.
Then we see more mentions of the Lord upon the Golden Horn," the indifference of Queen Elizabeth the Proteant, the uselessness of the Valois line (who went so far as to make teaties with them, some of which ended with much of the city of Marseilles taken into slavery.
References "The Lion of the sea," that is "The Lion of St. Mark, " which is the symbol of Venice.

Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,
[THIS IS THE CALL TO WAR, NOW THE TURK HAS GONE TOO FAR...BUT 'HALF-HARD" SUGGESTS FEW ARE RESPONDING, UNTILL FINALLY DON JON STEPS FORWARD..)
Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,
(DON JOHN IS A BASTARD WITH NO THRONE, YET HE IS--AS COMPARED TO PHILIP-- WHAT A KING SHOULD BE-- BRAVE, A GREAT GENERAL AND ADMIRAL, SEEKS OUT DANGEROUS, HAS THE RESPECT OF HIS EN, ETC... AND PHILIP WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR HIS, SOME EVEN SAY PHILIP HAD HIM POISONED_
Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,
The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall,
The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung,
That once went singing southward when all the world was young,
In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,
Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.
(IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS....THE AGE OF CHIVALRY, FOR WHATEVER IT WAS, IS OVER. IRONICALLY, IT'S THE BOOK BY DON QUIXOTE, WHO IS ABOARDA SHIP AT LEPANTO, THAT WILL PUT THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN. AFTER DON QUIXOTE BECAME POPULAR, ANYONE TRYING TO LARP AS A...CHIVALRIC KNIGHT WOULD BE LAUGHED AT)
Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war,
Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold
In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold,
Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums,
Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.
Don John laughing in the brave beard curled,
Spurning of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world,
Holding his head up for a flag of all the free.
Love-light of Spain—hurrah!
Death-light of Africa!
Don John of Austria
Is riding to the sea.

Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri’s knees,
His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas.
He shakes the peacock gardens as he rises from his ease,
And he strides among the tree-tops and is taller than the trees,
And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring
Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.
Giants and the Genii,
Multiplex of wing and eye,
Whose strong obedience broke the sky
When Solomon was king.

(ONLY IMPORTANT IN THAT THE SULTAN CAN...IN STAR WARS TERMINOLOGY "SENSE A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE." HE SENDS PUT THE VARIOUS CREATURES OF EASTERN LEGEND TO GO AND LOOK FOR WHAT THE DISTURBANCE IS0

They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,
From temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;
They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;
They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground,—
They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.
And he saith, “Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,
And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.
We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,
Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done,
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate ;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth.”
For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
9THE READER IS GIVENT HE IMAGE OF THE HIDEOUS LITTLE THINGS DRESSED IN GREEN, BUT EVEN BEFORE HE SENDS THEM OUT, THE SLTAN CAN 'SENSE" WHATEVER IS ON THE WATTHIS TIME IS DIFFERENT. THIS THE REASON HE SAY: "IT IS RICHARD, IT IS RAYWMOND, IT IS GODFREY AT THE GATE." WE AN ASSUME HE THRRREW RICHARD IN THERE TO PAY HOMAGE TO HS OWN ENGLISH ROOTS, BUT RICHARD WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THE SENSE THE OTHER 2 WERE, WHO FIRST TOOK ANTIOCH AND THEN TOOK JERUSALEM... AND HELD IT FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. ....SO THE SULTAN CAN SENSE THAT, INTHE WORDS OF THE POEM "THAT WHICH WAS OUR TROUBLE COMES AGAIN OUT OF THE WEST." THIS IS NOT AN EXPEDITION LIKE...THAT OF S. LOUIS (NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM HIM) WHO WILL DIE IN ROUTE. THIS AN ON THE WAY THEY CAN SENSE MEANS BUSINESS, AD TO EITHER INFLICT MAJOR DAMAGE, FREE HIS PEOPLE FROM THE GALLEYS, OR DIE IN THE PROCESS.)

Sudden and still—hurrah!
Bolt from Iberia!
Don John of Austria
Is gone by Alcalar.
(CUT THIS OFF BY MISTAKE, VUT AS DON JON PROCEEDS AROUND THE COAST, HE IS GREETED BY MASIVE PROCESSIONS AND FEASTS, AND HE SUPPOSEDLY BEDDEDA NUMBER , A LARGE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WOMEN IN EACH CITY, AND EACH OEN REMARKED UPON HIS GREAT SKILL AT DANCING (BACK WHEN THE EUROPEAN NOBILITY ENGAGED IN SUCH THINGS, AND IT WAS NOT THE DOMAIN OF NEGRO RAPPERS) AND HE WAS ALSO SAID TO BE TALL AND GOOD LOOKING....THUS THE EXPRESSION "DON JUAN" FOR A GREAT, ROMANTIC MALE OVER CAME INTO BEING. I'VVE HEARD OTHERS ARGUE IT DOESN'T COME FROMHIS, BUT THE TIMING, THE SEQUENCE, IT HAS TO BE.."DON JUAN" AS THIS GREAT MALE LOVER IS DON OHN OF AUSTRIA. ALSO, A BIT OT BUT AS THE SHIPS CLOSED FOR CANON SHOTS AND BOARDING DON JON WAS OVERCOME BY THE MOMENT HE DANCES A GALLEASS OM BOARD HIS SHIP, THE REAL)

St. Michael’s on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north
9HERE IS REFERRING TO MON SAN MICHELE, WHICH IS DOING NOTHING TO HELP DESPITE IT BEING THE MOST WELL-FORTIFIED MONASTERY/FORTRESS IN EUROPE)
(Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.)
Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift
And the sea folk labour and the red sails lift.
He shakes his lance of iron and he claps his wings of stone;
9ANOTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE STATUTE OF SAINT MICHAEL ATOP THE MONASTERY/FORTRESS IN NORMANDY)
The noise is gone through Normandy; the noise is gone alone;
The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,
(DESCRIBING THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION IN EUROPE, ONE CAN ASSUME CHESTERTON'S PERSONAL DISGUST AT HUGUENOTS ANDCATHOLICS BOTH FIGHTING EACH OTHER IN ROOMS AT UNIVERSITIES ARUGING OVER TEXTS AND ACTUAL FIGHTING ON THHE BODY FIELD AS THE THE TURK MAKES GREATER AND GREATER INROADS IN EUROPE
But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.
Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse
Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips,
Trumpet that sayeth ha!
Domino gloria!
Don John of Austria
Is shouting to the ships.
(2 FUNCTIONS HERE-- DESCRIBE HOW JON JON, BEFORE THE BATTLE, BOARDED A SMALL BOARD AND WEAVED IN AND OUT OF THE SHIPS IN HIS FLEET. SHOUTING ENCOURAGEMENT TO THEM...ALSO, HOW DESPIE ALL THE BULLSHIT GOING ON BACK AT HOME, DON JON OF AUSTRIA "THE LAST KNIGHT OF EUROPE TAKES WEAPONS FROM THE WALL) IS READY TO FIGHT, NO MATTER THE RISK, NO MATTER THE VHANCE OF LOSING HIS HALF-BORTHER'S FLEET-- HE HAS TRUST IN GOD AND IS READY TO COMMITT ALL, WHICH IS SOMETHIGN THE TURKS HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE AMONG A MAJOR COMMANDER AND ARE NOT EXPECTING. BEAR IN MIND HE IS ONLY 25 YEARS OLD, HE WANTS A CROWN FOR HIMSELF, HE IS EAGER FOR BATTLE)

King Philip’s in his closet with the Fleece about his neck
(Don John of Austria is armed upon the deck.)
The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin,
And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in.
He holds a crystal phial that has colours like the moon,
He touches, and it tingles, and he trembles very soon,
And his face is as a fungus of a leprous white and grey
Like plants in the high houses that are shuttered from the day,
And death is in the phial, and the end of noble work,
But Don John of Austria has fired upon the Turk.
Don John’s hunting, and his hounds have bayed—
Booms away past Italy the rumour of his raid
Gun upon gun, ha! ha!
Gun upon gun, hurrah!
Don John of Austria
Has loosed the cannonade.

(WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF THIS IS TRUE, BUT TIT SUGGESTS AN OLD AN IFORM KING PHILIP, WHO DOES ALL HE CAN TO SEEK OUT COMFORT, RIGHT DOW TO "THE FLEECE OPEN HIS NECK," WHILE DON JON IS SEEKING ON DANGER, IS WAGING HOLY WAR TO PUSH BACK THE TURK. YOU CAN SEE FROM THE DESCRIPTION- HE IS DESCRIBED AS SO OLD AND SO DEPRIVED OF SUNLIGHT THAT HIS HAS HAS TURNED "THE COLOR OF A LEPROUS." ALSO, THE NARRATOR DESCRIBES HIM AS SORT OF MESSING ABOUT WITH CRYSTALS, WITH IS BOTH HERESY IN THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND TOTALLY USELESS. THIS WILL CONTRAST LATER IN THE POEM WITH THE POPE'S LATER "TRUE" VISION THAT IS INSPIRED BY GOD.

The Pope was in his chapel before day or battle broke,
(Don John of Austria is hidden in the smoke.)
The hidden room in man’s house where God sits all the year,
The secret window whence the world looks small and very dear.
He sees as in a mirror on the monstrous twilight sea
The crescent of his cruel ships whose name is mystery;
They fling great shadows foe-wards, making Cross and Castle dark,
They veil the plumèd lions on the galleys of St. Mark;
And above the ships are palaces of brown, black-bearded chiefs,
And below the ships are prisons, where with multitudinous griefs,
Christian captives sick and sunless, all a labouring race repines
Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines.
They are lost like slaves that sweat, and in the skies of morning hung
The stair-ways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young.
They are countless, voiceless, hopeless as those fallen or fleeing on
Before the high Kings’ horses in the granite of Babylon.
And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell
Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell,
And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign—
(But Don John of Austria has burst the battle-line!)
Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,
Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,
Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,
Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,
Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea
White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.
Vivat Hispania!
Domino Gloria!
Don John of Austria
Has set his people free!

NOW, THE ATTACK! IT CAN'T RALLY BE...HOW DO YOU RALLY DESRIVE THE LARGST NAVAL BATTLE IN HISTORY UP TO THE POINT AND TEHE LARGEST LOSS OF LIFE, OF WHICH THE WORLD WILL SE NOTHING LIK IT UNTI WW 1, HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER? JUST MILES AND MILES OF DEAD/DRING/DROWNING MEN, GHOST SHIPS. MONKEYS (OFTEN KEPT BY SAILORS (LOOKING IN VAIN FOR THEIR MASTERS). JUST A SCENE OF CHAOS THAT...CONSIDERED THAT ERVANTES HAD AN ARM SHATTERED--TOTALLY SHATTERED-- BY A MUSKET BALL, AND HAD TO GO BACK TO WORK AS A SOLIDER 2 MONTHS LATER JUST TO EARN HIS DAILY BREAD. IT REINFORCES, THAT THE MEN OF THIS TIME WERE FUCKING HARD IN WAY VERY, VERY FEW PEOPPLE IN THE WEST CAN even imagine. another example-- over half of Columbus's crew when he left Spain were under 24 years old. thee days were barely truly 14 year olds to....wash dishes...

MORE, CONT'D, FROM THE PREVIOUS STANZA)
THE POPE AT THIS TIME WAS A TRUE AESTHETIC "WARRIOR POPE WHO REALLY GOT IN AS AN ACCIENT SINCE THER POWERFUL FAMILIES COULD NOT AGREE). HE ONLY OENED 2 SHIRTS, ONE FOR PRAYING AND WORKING, AND ONE FOR WASHING. HE DID NOT PUT UP WITH ANY BULLSHIT OR WASTING OR CHRHURCH MONEY, HE DID NOT PUT UP WITH EXCUSES FOR WHY MORE LAND FOR BEING LOST TO TURKS. REALLY AN EXAMAZING POPE, I DON'T THINK, THOUGH I'D NEED TO CHECK, IF HE WAS BEATIFIED AND THEN SAINTED. MY GUESS WOULD BE NO SINCE E VERY ABRUPTLY BUT AN END TO ALL THE FUN THE DEGENERATE CARDNAL CLASS WAS HAVING.
HE TOOK OUT LOANS, EVEN MORTGAGING SACED OBJECTS SO AS TO RAISE THE MONEY THAT WOULD THEN BE USED TO FIGHT THE TURK. IRONICALLY, ALL HIS WORK ALMOT SURELY WOULD HAVE COME TO SHIT, IF THE TURKS HAD NOT--- IT SEEMS FROM THE RECORDS NOW TOTALLY WITHOUT EVDIENCE-- OF MURDDERING A BUNCH OF HAJ MUSLIMS MILGRIMS IN THEIR BASEMENT.
THE MUSLIM ANSWER TO THIS WAS RO TAKE MAR ANTONI GRAGADINO, FORCE HIM, ON HIS KNEES, TO CARRY DIRT ON HIS BACK FOR A WEEK WERE HOLES HAS BEEN MADE IN THE WALLS (INCIDENTALLY, THE FORTRSS WAS DESIGNED BY THE BEST ITALIAN MIITARY EINGINEER OF THE DAY AND SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN LOST, BUT THT IS FOR ANOTHER DAY). AND AS HE WOULD PASS, THE TORKS WOULD SPIT ON HIM SND THROWN FECES.
EVENTUALLY, TH HEAD TURK, MUST-FA, GUT A JEW BUTCHER *AND THE VENETIANS WOULD NOT FORGET) TO SKIN HIM ALIVE (HE WAS STILL ALIVE AS THEY BEGAN CUTTING BELOW HIS WAIST.
THE THEN TOOK HIS SKIN, STUFFED IT WITH STAW, AND SAT IT IN A CHAIR, SO THAT IT COULD BE RAISED TO THE TOP OF TH MAST, AND WHILE USED THERE THEY WOULD YELL "LOOK, CHRISTIAN, SEE IF YOU CAN SEE OUR GREAT FLEET COMING WITH RELIEF? CAN YOU SEE YOUR FLEET, CHRISTIAN?
MARC ANTONIO BRADIN WAS FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FAMILIES OF VENICE, AND WORD OF WHAT HAPPENED AT FAMAGUSTA GOT BACK TOT HE VENETIANS JUST BEFORE FAMAGUSTA. IN REFPONSE, THE VENTIANS TOOK OUT THEIR "LOATING GUN PLATFORMS (SOMETHING LIIKE A TANK, BUT ON WATER AND WITH GUNS EXTENDING EVERYWHERE IN A CIRCLE-- SUPPOSEDLY DA VINCI PLAYED A ROLE IN DESIGNING IT).
THE VENETIANS WANTED BLOOD AND MANY OF THEM RAISED THE BLACK BLACK FLAG-- NO QUARTER GIVEN, NONE EXPECTED... WHEN WORD OF THE VICTORY REACHED VENICE, TURK MERCHANTS HAD TO TRY TO BARRICADE THEMSLEVES IN THEIR WAREGOUSES FOR A WEEK, BONFIRES WERE LIGHTED, ALL STORES CLOSED FOR A WEEK WITH THE SIMPLE SIGN "CLOSED FOR THE DEATH OF THE TURK." DEBTORS JAILS WERE OPENED, AND EVEN AS FAR AWAY AS PROTESTANT LONDON AND SOCOLM IT WAS CELEBRATED..