The Cantos

Allison Tang Rzendian Chamber Choir 20 September 2017 Joan Sutherland An Australian singer, Joan Sutherland, has been one of the most successful and inpspiring people of all vocalists.. Officially depicted as `La Stupenda', the `Koloraturwunder' or `The Unique', she can think back on a vocation extending over forty years which was soundly based and shrewdly grown; yet regardless of her worldwide eminence, notwithstanding the many…

To what extent does tragedy impose on our knowledge of suffering? First it is important to realize, not everyone follows the path of righteousness; most of mankind hold values that conflict with opinions on how to live. Susan Sipple relays, " No single voice is sufficient. Women 's voices will convey a different experience of suffering than the voices of men; black voices speak differently than white voices; martyrs ' voices will not match the voices of inquisitors[…]." and so forth. When…

Critique of Dante’s Hell Why do people do the things they do? Is it because they simply love to do it? Is it to make money? Is it to make another person happy? Ultimately, people do things because they want to get something out of it, or benefit from in it some form or another. For example, a teenager probably doesn’t just feel a burning desire to wash the dishes for their mom because they love her and want to serve her in any way imaginable. They most likely want their parents to let them go…

42 million people prostituted around the world as reported by Policy Department C: Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs an European Parliamentary Committee, but it is also the oldest and most dangerous profession in world (Schulze, E., Novo Canto, S. I., Mason, P., & Skalin, M, 2014). The death rate for prostitutes is 204 out of every 100,000 which in comparison is higher than that of fisherman which is 129 for every 100,000 (Prostitution in the United States). The sex trade not only…

the world would end by which Shapley replied that it would either be incinerated or fall into a permanent ice age. The second, and widely accepted, explanation is that Frost was inspired 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,…

Often, especially in the most modern and current times, love is regarded as a secondary objective that occurs without special heed in life. However, in a religious context, love can be interpreted as an entity that should be necessarily deliberate. For example, in Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio– an exploration of the purgatory preceding heaven, or ‘Paradiso’– Dante aligns the evolution of sin with how or towards what love is directed. Love is more complicated in Dante’s framework than most would…

Transcendence may be defined as “the existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level” and may refer to the spiritual, the fantastical, the magical or the otherwise immaterial. The theme of transcendence - particularly spiritual transcendence - has been explored through the centuries in religious art, such as that of Giotto di Bondone (1266 – 1337) and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 – 1564). Michelangelo explored such themes on a monumental scale, in works such as…

Throughout the course of Cultural Perspectives, many texts and authors who have contributed to the Great Conversation have been discussed. Ultimately, each author is attempting to find his or her summum bonum or “highest good.” Although each author has a different definition of summum bonum, the majority agrees on the method required to attain the highest good: balance. Whether that balance be implicitly or explicitly accredited for the summum bonum differs for each author. Lao Tzu’s thoughts…

Chapter One: Sinatra and the Music The biggest impression Frank left on popular music and culture lives on in the heart of the music itself. The influence he had on the world can still be heard on his recordings today. His style of singing carried such meaning and depth that it transcended cultural boundaries. In a poem by Gerald Early, from Mustazza’s collection of essays entitled “Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture”, he recalls going to a freak show as a boy and hearing the wonderful sounds…

Through the works of Dante Alighieri, he provided insight as to how he interprets the seven deadly sins; a Christian concept. His use of the contrapasso throughout the Divine Comedy allows us to explore other meanings and causes to the sins. The sin; sloth, has an ironic punishment in Dante’s inferno and purgatorio, with an underlying reasoning of misguided love. While exploring other sources and authors interpretations of “sloth”, I have found that the explanation has changed and has been…