The Cantos

Make Florence Great Again Dante Alighieri lived during a time of various warring political sides and became strongly involved in politics as much as his education and writing. He was then exiled by the unstable political climate but remained determined to contribute to Florence’s well being through his writing of the epic poem, The Inferno, attempting to cleanse corrupt figures, who he believed contributed no positive aspects to Florence, by putting them in certain places of his Hell. He creates

The Cultural Conflict of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley      By imitating writing styles of ancient poets, Ezra Pound exhibited his attitude toward modern civilization, and his famous poem, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, is the stereotype. In this poem, Pound revealed his disagreement with industrial society. The poem is an imitation of other old poetic styles, or epic style; however, it presents ironic meaning. To fully understand Pound's divergence from modern culture, the ways of presenting his position

In the most twenty-first novel, authors always show cultural and technological challenges of living in the new century. They use unusual relationship, society and class and identity in the novel to create a impressive story. In the novel “Bel Canto”, which is based on the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, by Ann Patchett, there is an unusual relationship between a translator and a terrorist; the upper ten and terrorist live together peacefully and the main character, Hosokawa fells

every opera house in the world. Happily, he would have [...] if their old life was ever restored to them, nothing would be the same.” (227). Not many people would be prepared to give up their passion impromptu, like Mr. Hosokawa in the novel. Bel Canto is a novel in which the author, Ann Patchett, presents an environment where there are no distinct main characters, or protagonists. Most characters in the novel have a backstory sufficiently

Canto I The mountain stands snowy, jagged, prominent, and treacherous, Its summit piercing a hole into the brilliant azure sky. Below lies a small village, its people quite adventurous. Some time ago, the village had a deficient food supply, And one boy decided he could not watch his family starve. At just thirteen, the boy climbed over that towering mountain, Securing food that rescued his village and made him a star. He earned praise that surged out of the villagers like a fountain. The boy

In the beginning of Canto 19, the Pilgrim has a dream of a siren who quickly becomes the center of his attention. He describes the siren as a female who is stuttering, cross-eyed, has crooked on her feet and has stunted hands (p. 309, lines 7-9). This is a very strong image for the beginning of a Canto and it seems to state something about all the vices in general: vices cause a lack of effective speech, cannot see accurately, cannot move towards accurate goods and cannot perform good works. The

not only suffer the consequences but will continue to participate in sinful actions repetitively if appropriate precautions are not taken to prevent and furthermore damage. With the literary devices demonstrated throughout the Canto, imagery and mood that occurred in Canto 24 really stands out to the reader with the well-detailed description that Dante shares with the reader. From lines 43-66 Dante tells the rigorous journey of the two men as they traveled into the eighth circle. Dante expresses

in life. Dante uses first person point of view and imagery with many characters to lay out his idea that love is the main cause of everything, the reason for good and bad. In canto 17 of Purgatory it says, “Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which

Dante travels through this huge life changing journey in Purgatorio. Before entering Purgatorio, Dante passes through three steps. In Canto ___ Dante illustrate each staircase when he is passing through them. That is to say, what are the significances of the staircase when entering Purgatorio? _(Therefore)_____ the significances of the staircase when entering Purgatorio is in a form of foreshadowing of what the person will pass through their journey in Purgatorio. Through the entrance of Purgatorio

Inferno CANTO I ANALYSIS In Canto I of the Inferno, which was one of three parts of Dante Alighieri’s famous epic poem The Divine Comedy, the Canto starts off with an argument, a common way to begin a work in Dante’s time, intended to summarize the Canto. It says that the writer was lost in a dark woods, looking out upon a mountain on which monsters were keeping him from ascending. Then a Roman poet by the name of Virgil met him and told him that he would guide him through the two parts of the