“Estonian Elegy” by Jüri Talvet: A Vision of an Ethnical Perspective via Forgiveness and Love

“Estonian Elegy” is a desperate painful cry of the denied right to happiness. This poem, a sensuous elegy for the loss of nine hundred human lives in a passenger ferry, turns into a lament for the past and the present of a nation. Estonia, an ancient country, with an extraordinary history (dating back to 10,000 B.C, to the end of the Late Pleistocene, by found artefacts of the Kunda Culture) (Kevin O’Connor 2006: 39), has had a long and difficult road toward resurrection, after a lot of suffering and humiliation during the past centuries.