Inferno

characters and even walked with them in La Divina Commedia. When the description of Inferno was…

claims “When Hecate put me in chare of Avernus’ groves she led me through them all.” (6.655-657, pg. 201” referring to the punishments of the Underworld, as a way of proving herself of being a viable guide for Aeneas. A similar event occurs in the Inferno when Virgil first appears. He states “Therefore, for your sake, I think it wise you follow me: I will be your guide, leading you, from here, through an eternal place…” (I.112-114, pg. 9). This guide-follower relationship is kept up as we…

by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, specifically a passage in Canto 32 of Inferno. The style, structure, and theme are found to be “a brilliant, gem-like compression” of Dante’s work that “presents a much more profound distinction between the two extremes of love and hate.” (The Explicator Volume 57, Issue 4, 1999). The proof of this theory lies, as stated before, in the style, structure, and theme of the poem. In Inferno, Dante separated hell into nine circles according to the sins committed…

Pier della Vigna, a character from Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” is the focal point of this paper. This character is introduced in the Inferno Canto XIII, also known as the Second Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell. Of all characters that I have come across in the Divine Comedy, Pier to me is most significant as he does not claim that he was wrongfully punished in hell but worries of being recognized as an unfaithful person in the world. The concept of this paper will surround the idea of Pier and…

truth. Socrates then concludes that justice at the individual level is defined by the aspects of the person’s soul or sources of their three desires; if we resist these three temptations to a certain extent, we can each live a more just life. “The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri defines justice from a different perspective. Dante describes a correlation between a soul’s sins on Earth and their punishment in Hell. He does this by creating different circles, or depths, of Hell, and in doing so, he…

All the wicked individuals who deliberately commit the undeniable and unforgivable sin of disposing of their pure recyclables into the devil’s snare of the landfill shall be cast into the fiery inferno of hell. The burning fires beneath them shall smother them with toxic fumes of burning plastic to cleanse them of the terrible sin they have committed before God. The devil’s snare grows deep and wider as the sins of the human race claw at its edges. The sinners look down before it with no remorse…

1. In the epic poetry, The Inferno of Dante translation by Robert Pinsky (1320), Dante Alighieri implies that the sinners in Hell are selfish and only care about themselves which is also one of the biggest reasons that they ended up in Hell. Alighieri supports this claim by introducing the ten pouches in the eighth circle as they are all connected through fraud which is basically is deceiving others for financial or personal gain which is very much being selfish. The author purposely emphasizes…

Dante’s Divine Comedy has a focus on sin and throughout the poem he has the benefit of seeing the punishments for all the different divisions of sin. Before even seeing the punishments for particular sins, in canto I Dante is climbing a hillside and winds up spotting three beasts before him that have a more significant meaning than just instilling fear in Dante. The three beasts, the leopard, lion and she-wolf, all represent different things in what is to be seen during Dante’s journey. In this…

T.S Eliot once said, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” Eliot 's poem, “The Waste Land” (1922), embodies the essence of this quote; take from what is already there, and place his own updated interpretation for the modern audience to provide their own temporal relativist view on top of the already layered meaning of the original work quoted within Eliot 's poem. The…

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri was one of the most influential poets of all time. He wrote works such as The Divine Comedy and De Monarchia. His works continue to be read today and almost all who read them are fascinated. Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. After a long life there, he was exiled for 2 years, though, he never returned. He didn’t technically settle down anywhere for a while. People believe that he then settled in Bologna in 1304, where he wrote De Vulgari…