The Cantos

strengths and skills in an effort to thoroughly complete the weekly assigned tasks. Every member on our team understands the vital roles we play and are committed to the success of Team D. Team D consists of Brenda Barlow, Robert Bermudez, Janese Canto, Tyechia Crowder and Lamyeia Fields. Our team is composed of optimistic and energetic individuals from diverse backgrounds with extensive leadership or management experience.…

Catholics were often criticized because Protestants such as Spenser and Foxe believed that they oppressed their people and only allowed them to interpret the scriptures in the way the church told them to. Foxe demonstrates his love of Protestantism and its importance by telling the stories of selfless and courageous men who translated the scriptures so that the public could read and understand them. This allowed the Protestants to interpret God and love in their own way, which was much freer…

the fact that in the early middle ages religion and rituals were a major factor in medicine. In the Herbarium, one of the cures for snakebite calls for the creator to “hold it (the plant) in your hands and say this three times: Omnes malas bestias canto, that is in our language, enchant and overcome all evil wild beasts” The footnote of this quote says ”For many who collect plants in the wild (wildcrafters) and herbalists, speaking to a plant before it is cut explaining why one is gathering it…

and T.S. Eliot, took as model for their own works Dante's oeuvre. In fact, Ezra Pound mentioned in his poem titled “Sestina: Altaforte” the Medieval nobleman Bertran de Born (lived in the late 12th century), who was put by Dante in the hell (Inferno Canto XXVIII) as he was suggested to be the one who turned Prince Henry against his father, King Henry II; while T.S. Eliot, in asserting that both: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them...” (Eliot, 1934: 266), he argued…

encouraged other poets…helping them publish and writing reviews of their work,” (pg. 1598). • He “organized the imagists, the first modernist literary group in England and the United States,” (pg. 1598). • He was awarded the Bollingen Prize for “his Pisan Cantos (1948), written while he was in prison in Italy, and he later received the American Poets Award,” (pg. 1599). Connections • He was connected to Whitman because in his essay, “What I Feel about Walt Whitman,” he said “The vital part of…

The contemporary world of Alexander Pope is unquestionably trivialised through his use of mock-epic and satire, it is not so often acknowledged for the skill in which Pope parodies the epic form which makes the mock-epic and the epic undoubtedly conjoined in the experience they provide the reader. The epic poem, like all other literary forms, has continually been used as a vehicle in which beliefs and values resonate from one generation to the next. On account of the fact that epics have…

In the beginning of The Inferno, Dante walked in a dark forest lamenting the loss of his beloved Beatrice. When Dante started his journey he was not sure that he would be able to write about the epic he needed to undertake. He wrote about traveling thought hell, purgatory, and heaven. Dante and Virgil’s relationship is a complicated one. At the start of the story Dante respects and looks up to Virgil, whereas Virgil sees Dante as a pupil more than an equal. However towards the end of the epic…

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…

view that one should never succumb to Earthly whims. As Dante travels through the concentric circles of hell, he meets many sinners who were heroes on Earth who were lauded in spite of their sins or sinners whose true crimes were never punished. In Canto XXIX, he meets Griffolino d’Arezzo who tells him that “the crime for which [his] flesh/was charred was not the one that brought [him] here” (XXIX. 99-100). D’Arezzo was burnt at the stake for sorcery but is rotting in the final bolgia of Circle…

Dear Ms. Di Rico, It is hard to believe how fast this year flew by. I can still remember you trying to remember our names. This year in global literature has taught me so much. Not only has this class taught me how to analyze a book or a poem or a short story. But it has taught me valuable life lessons that I will use for the rest of my life. Each assignment that you have assigned us has challenged me in many ways. In my letter I would like to take the time to reflect on all the units we have…