Journey To Hell In The Divine Comedy

Journey to Hell Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet via himself as a narrator, introduces his journey to hell through his poem “ The Divine Comedy: Inferno” which is one of the great poem he wrote. He describes how middle of his age, he ends up lost in the woods, and how he tries to leave but he cannot, which is the beginning of Dante’s journey to hell in Canto 1. This paper argues that, going to hell is not an easy road and it takes a lot of misery and fear, the people who have made mistakes during their lifetimes, they end up in the hell based on the level of how bad their mistakes were and Dante was one of them, so for him to realize that he made the mistakes he ends up his way up in the hell. The passage begins with Dante narrating of how he woke up in the dark woods, where he tries to escape but the he cannot. Each clause is build with adverbs and adjectives, which grammatical layering enhances the narrative to make reading more interesting. For example, Dante said “Midway along the journey of our life,” (Canto1-1) that he was half way to his life when the scene happened. “I woke to find myself in a dark …show more content…
Dante was an Italian poet who wrote the poem “ The divine comedy: inferno”, in his poem he write about how ended up in the hell and struggles he went through, such as facing the beasts, how the beasts lowered his spirit, and how he met his favorite poem writer Virgil during his woe, but story does not end, since it was just a beginning of Dante’s journey to hell in Canto 1. The main reason why poet wrote about hell was that, to show people what does doing bad can cost a person, which are death, fear and pain. Yet Dante still had a very long journey until he realized what does being avaricious and doing bad to others can lead after