Canto

Understanding Latina Political Leadership As said by Sonia Sotomayor, a justice in the Supreme Court in the United States of America, “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.” Sonia Sotomayor has worked her way up to be the first Latina of the Supreme Court as of 2009. Throughout history, Females have had to work extremely hard to gain the same rights as the white man,…

the repetition of the word “Oime” at the beginning of the first three lines as well as the beginning of the fifth line. This use of repetition is parallelism in the text. Monteverdi also uses motive a to for each time “Oime” is being sung by the canto or the quinto. The words to the sonnet from Petrarch, and the music that Monteverdi wrote to go along are both well done when put together. The sonnet Petrarch wrote is about a young woman whom he had fallen in love with, a woman named…

Throughout the history of literature, a multitude of interesting and perplexing texts have been written. Throughout our time in AP Literature at WHS in Semester 1, we have read a great number of these great texts. Oftentimes, students are asked to pick favorite texts in classes like the AP Literature class. Yet, when faced with this question, a student must decide what qualifies a text as being their favorite. Dictionary.com defines favorite as, “a person or thing regarded with special favor or…

Dante The Mindful Hero Unlike most epic hero journeys, The Inferno by Dante Alighieri is more modern than most. Dante expresses a journey that society can relate to. The majority of epics, the protagonist is a person that society can look up to rather than relate to them. When the audience reads stories about strong characters, and they see the outcomes of their actions, they aspire to be like them and crave strength. What makes Dante Alighieri unique and unlike other epic heroes is that he…

Why is the most traveled road evil? People are constantly led into evil temptation every day of their lives and have the opportunity to give in. Although, people possess the power of free will by making the choice to give into evil temptations or to do good. A common factor in giving into evil ways comes from peer pressure. In Genesis, Satan pressures and persuades Eve into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be…

The Inferno by Dante, is a story based on a journey through Hell. The narrative begins with Dante straying off the path of life, into the forest of the underworld. As the journey goes on; Dante encounters his inspiration, and late Roman writer named Virgil. Dante must venture through the 9 “circles” of Hell, according to the sin committed in the mortal life. In every level, the bodies of sinners on earth are tortured. The severity of the punishments increase as Dante’s journey prolongs. The…

would have to practice breathing techniques to start breathing properly. It is important because when singing, if you can’t breathe, you won’t be able to be heard and then you are gasping for air and miss the lyrics you’re supposed to be saying. Bel Canto is different because it requires a lot of vocal advancement. Jazz has a little kick back vibe to it which makes it different from other genres of music and pop is character ized for the generation that is now in. Different genres are there…

The leopard, lion, and the she-wolf are meant to symbolize the three major types of sins. The leopard represents fraudulence, the lion symbolizes violence, and the she-wolf represents immoderation. The animal that seems to pose the greatest problem for Dante is the she-wolf. Even though Dante states that it was the leopard that caused him “more than once she me turn about to go back down”, it was the sight of the she-wolf that made Dante loose all hope as he thought at first sight, “Then, a grim…

courtesy” (Alighieri 275). Virgil was able to have this effect on Dante because his respect was something Dante sought so desperately and this was key in helping Dante through his spiritual journey. In spite of how powerful Virgil seemed in the earliest cantos, it is when Virgil appears helpless that he is helping Dante the most by showing him that human reason can only go so far without divine…

blood for a cause. The fallen angels abandoned God and in a sense he abandons them. All of these factors remind these souls, that although they chose not to do evil things, they did not take a stand against the evil that was being done around them. In Canto III of Dante’s Inferno as Dante prepares for his journey to Hell, he sees a sign over the gate that states, “All hope abandon, ye who enters here.”. The souls of the uncommitted are sentenced to eternity in the vestibule of Hell. They did not…