Dante Alighieri begins to introduce a distinctive perspective of Hell by taking a voyage through numerous levels of it with his expert Virgil. This voyage constitutes the fundamental plot of the sonnet. The opening Canto predominantly demonstrates that, on part of the way through his life, the poet Dante gets himself lost in a dull backwoods by meandering into a tangled valley. Being completely terrified and bewildered, Dante sees the daylight descending from a ridge, so he endeavors to move toward the light. In any case, he experiences three wild mammoths in transit up to the mountain—a panther, a lion, and a she-wolf, which compel him to turn back. At that point Dante sees a human figure, which is soon uncovered to be the immense Roman writer
