Eliot used the author Dante in many of his works, and saw him as an educational purpose. ... Then again in Eliots book Dante stated Dante has to educate our senses as he goes along. ... One time in particular that Eliot used Dante was in The Love Song of J. ... Jay Dougherty compared Prufrock to the character, Guido de Montafeltro, the doomed spirit in Dantes A Divine Comedy. ... Eliot also acknowledged that he has borrowed lines from Dante to use in his poetry in the attempt to reproduce, or rather to arouse in the readers mind the memory of some Dantesque scene, and thus establish a relation...

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Eliot begins the poem with an epigraph from Dante's Inferno suggesting that Prufrock speaks only because he is sure no one will listen and what has or has not been done will remain in that state. ... Contrary to the endless circuitous steps taken by Prufrock in his dialogue, the epigraph from Dante's Inferno is essential for mirroring his descent without ascension. ... Prufrock draws a connection between himself and Hamlet's passivity of character, although, his greatness is incomparable to that of the king. ... He is not even the main character in his own story. ... His fi...

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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. ... Prince Hamlet: not Shakespeare's noble prince, who resisted the temptation to commit suicide in his "To be or not to be" speec...

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