This is the first part of Dante's poem "Divine Comedy,"" describing nine circles of people's sufferings on the Earth. ... Alighieri and Lombardo (2009) stated that this poem "motivates every moment of our lives in this world, so that the understanding of Hell will never be acquired into actual experience after death"" (p. 19). ... The sins presented in the poem are lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. ... The sculptor liked this literary work greatly, and this fact helped him to invent the sculpture on the basis of the characters and events described i...

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It is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." Whitman believed that a poet's thoughts ...

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The earliest Gilgamesh stories seem to come from Sumerian texts which most likely reflect the crystallization of earlier epic traditions, and was probably one of the most well-known and influential poems available (West 65). ...

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