Dante Alighieri, one of the most respected poets of all time, accomplished many things during his life; with his crowning achievement being the invention of the fourfold analysis method. ... One specific group that is particularly apt for analysis is who were treacherous to kin, located in the first layer of circle nine in the Inferno. ... Ciardi comments on this in his notes in "The Inferno," mentioning that that the two Alberti brothers were constantly feuding because Alessandro was a Guelph and Napoleoni was a Ghibelline. ... His fourfold analysis method has clearly stood the test of time,...

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Dante's use of allegory in the Inferno greatly varies from Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in purpose, symbolism, characters and mentors, and in attitude toward the world. An analysis of each of these elements in both allegories will provide an interesting comparison. ... Dante's Inferno describes the descent through Hell from the upper level of the opportunists to the most evil, the treacherous, on the lowest level. ... Dante's Inferno is a detailed description of sin and its relationship to degrees of punishment. ... In Dante's Inferno, Dante specifically criticizes b...

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This difference is important for the analysis of the life after death in different religions. ... Perception of Life After Death in Literature: Dante's "Inferno " Life after death is an interesting and important topic considered by people of different age and religious perceptions. This topic can be found in many forms of literature, one key example is the literary work written by Dante Alighieri named "Inferno ", which is translated from Italian as "hell"." ... With the help of "Inferno,"" Dante wanted to show the principles of virtue for people and the appropriate laws of living in the...

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Romantic Love In Dante's Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France It is fascinating to take the time out to examine in similarities and differences in the way authors Dante Aligheri and Marie De France impart to their readers their views on romantic love. ... Marie De France, like Dante, has a distinctive literary form. ... Canto V of Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno, takes the reader to the first compartment of true hell, residence for those whose sins have earned them eternal damnation. ... In the final analysis, it is unlikely that Dante feels that love triumphs over all,...

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This poem can be likened to the works of Dante who uses the terza rima style in his work the Divine Comedy. In the Inferno, Dante also covers similar dark themes of isolation and depression. Alluding to Dante was also perhaps, Frost's knowing wink to his more literary readers who, he believed would have noted the similarity. ... But that it seems a simple tale of bleakness and solitude is at once both true and false, I have re-read this poem several times and have even now, not finally settled on, or accepted that I know if there can be just one true analysis of this poem. ... More kno...

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Tennyson's "Ulysses " draws aspects of two existing tales of Ulysses, one by Dante in his Inferno and the other by Homer in his epic The Odyssey. ... This is displayed while Tennyson mingles the two earlier versions by not only showing Ulysses safely getting home as occurs in Homer's tale, but he also is about to sail the seas again as transpires in Dante's account. ...

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Shelley's "Ode To the West Wind": Analysis In "Ode to the West Wind," Percy Bysshe Shelley tries to gain transcendence, for he shows that his thoughts, like the "winged seeds" (7) are trapped. ... Shelley's adaptation of Dante's work is evident throughout most of his writing. ... He was writing this poem in a wood on the outskirts of Arno, near Florence, which is Dante's hometown. The use of the terza rima poem is Shelley's most obvious adaptation of Dante and he relies upon Dantesque ideas to write his poetry. The image of the leaves being blown by the wind "like ghos...

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The epigraph comes from the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy (XXVII, 61-66). Count Guido da Montefeltro, embodied in a flame, replies to Dante's question about his identity as one condemned for giving lying advice: "If I believed that my answer would be to someone who would ever return to earth, this flame would move no more, but because no one has ever returned alive from this gulf, if what I hear is true, I can reply with no fear of infamy." 3. ...

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This hellish atmosphere of the room leads him to relate it to Dante's Inferno as if he is having a "journey through hell."3 Hawthorne's reference to the Inferno may be deliberate; through it he shows the romantic point of view toward culture. ...

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