Canto

All the examples of treachery (Cantos XXXIV); Judas (Cantos XXXIV. 61-63), Cassius (Cantos XXXIV. 64-66) and Brutus (Cantos XXXIV. 67-69), who betrayed someone and caused their death show that murder is considered bad but it seems that straight murder isn’t as bad as killing someone after betraying. I disagree because according…

‘Have mercy on me, whatever you are,’ I cried, ‘whether shade or living man (Canto 1, lines 64-66)!” It is after being convinced that the Pilgrim’s journey begins as he is guided by Virgil who states, “...I think it wise you follow me: I will be your guide, leading you, from here, through an eternal place where you shall hear the despairing cries and see those ancient souls in pain as they bewail their second death (Canto I, lines 112-117)”. Upon entering hell the Pilgrim shows all of the…

believable because he is very dramatic. In canto one of the novel, Dante exclaims,” Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!” Have you ever been in the car and smelled something not very pleasant and thought it was the worst smell in the world? Dante’s reaction from only looking at his surroundings for two seconds is equivalent to the bad smell. You have not smelled every different scent in the entire world, and Dante has not died yet. In canto three, Dante, “stumbled into darkness and…

of the lock is placed on a heroic stance by taking the subject as trivial but treated her in a heroic way Belinda is charmed when “gay ideas crowd the vacant brain/While peers, and dukes, and all their sweeping train/And garters, coronets appear” (Canto I, ll. 83-85). The extravagant aristocratic inconsequential things distracts her thoughts from realities of life and filled it with garters, stars and emblems of nobility. And to highlight her trivial nature the poet further adds to it by saying…

narrates his journey towards redemption. The comedy takes place in the afterworld which is divided into Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise). These three sections are, in turn, divided into 33 Cantos each with the exception of hell which has an introductory Canto. The Florentine writer is accompanied by 2 spiritual guides along his divine journey. The prince of Latin poems, Virgil, in both Inferno and Purgatorio, and Dante’s divine love, Beatrice, while in Paradiso.…

At the start of canto III, an inscription above the gates of hell reads “Justice moved my high maker, in power divine, wisdom supreme, love primal” (Canto III, 4-6). The interpretation is that God, the divine, created Hell on the principles of justice and primal love. Originally, this does not sit well with Dante, he battles with the justification of the contrapasso and lacks the understanding of how they demonstrate God’s love. This is valid clash on Dante’s part, how can…

physical appearance. In the original epic, Grendel’s physical appearance shares many similarities with a reptilian. According to canto eight, (Grendel) “strode quickly across the inlaid floor, snarling and fierce. His eyes gleamed in the darkness, burned with a gruesome light.” Although, Raffel never mentioned…

Time. Canto I Book X continues with the coming of the morning twilight of the gods there comes the splendour of a new birth. Savitri slips into this twilight of the new world. The predominant note of this realm is haziness or indistinctness. She sees vague fields, vague pastures, vague trees - a material world, but not like of the gross matter. Here the forms are subtly elusive. ‘Fugitive beings’ and ‘elusive shapes’ are the natural inhabitants of this world. Here, Sri Aurobindo, in this Canto…

Purgatorio, Canto II The second canto in “Purgatorio”, even more so than the first, is an explanation of how, and in what state, new souls arrive in Purgatory. The canto begins with Dante explaining that he and Vigil are still on the beach near the ocean. From the beach Dante looks out over the water and notices some sort of bright light, but he can not immediately determine what it es. The light seems to be moving towards Virgil and Dante at an incredible speed. At first, it seems that Virgil…

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