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Inferno: Canto 1 -- The Dark Wood
Inferno: Canto 1 - The Dark Wood. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 1 - The Dark Wood. The introduction to the. Is unique in the. The other two books each being introduced by the one preceding it. Its purpose is not only to introduce the. Is that the pilgrim traveler will enter into communion with God, and that promise extends to each of us beginning our journey through hell. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 8:58 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
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Inferno: Canto 3 -- Vestibule of Hell
Inferno: Canto 3 - Vestibule of Hell. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 3 - Vestibule of Hell. Pilgrims, it is only today that we step through the gates of hell and begin to experience the moans of the damned. The beginning of Canto III greets us with a salute like that of a Nazi concentration camp: "Arbeit Macht Frei"- the irony in the German signage is that freedom came only through death. Here, in hell, which is the second death, there is no hope that peace from woe will follow.
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Inferno: Canto 4 -- Circle 1
Inferno: Canto 4 - Circle 1. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 4 - Circle 1. We're at Virgil's home in hell, the circle in which reside the virtuous pagans, whom, Virgil declares, "were sinless. And still their merits fail,/ for they lacked Baptism's grace, which is the door/ of the true faith you. To Homer, the Iliad. To Horace, The Art of Poetry. To Ovid, the Metamorphoses. To Lucan, the Pharsalia. And Averroes (Ibn Roschd). Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 9:22 PM. View my complete profile.
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Inferno: Canto 5 -- Circle 2
Inferno: Canto 5 - Circle 2. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 5 - Circle 2. Could Minos instead of sentencing pause for a moment to counsel, to ask the sinners to be reconciled to G-d, to, in effect, assign some. Souls a steeper but more joyous path? In Dante, there is no hope of that, and Hamlet's resolve to kill Claudius in Act III, Scene iii, 77-100:. Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;. And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven;. And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:. Posted ...
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Inferno: Canto 6 -- Circle 3
Inferno: Canto 6 - Circle 3. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 6 - Circle 3. This kind of an addiction represents our appetites in a most direct way - mouth to stomach in satisfaction of the flesh. The more a person consumes, the more a person must consume to run the growing mass. Were Dante to rewrite this circle today, he would focus on other addictions of the flesh (like drug use, alcoholism, smoking) in which immoderation in appetite brought us to spiritual putrifaction.
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Inferno: Canto 7 -- Circle 4 & 5
Inferno: Canto 7 - Circle 4 and 5. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 7 - Circles 4 and 5. In the same way as the gluttonous and ravenous Cerberus guarded the circle of the gluttonous and ravenous, Plutus, the great miser, guards the circle of the hoarders and wasters (the avaricious and prodigal).*. It is entirely a point of speculation on my part because I cannot find any scholarship to affirm this, but I'm developing the idea that Charon represents sexual passion and misdirected love since all...
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Inferno: Canto 8 -- Circle 5
Inferno: Canto 8 - Circle 5. Monday, January 17, 2005. Inferno: Canto 8 - Circles 5. In Greek myth, we often stumble across Charon. As the boatman of Styx, not Phlegyas. And it was into Charon's palm the soul would have to place a coin in order to secure transit to the Underworld. Without the coin, the dead would have to wander the banks of the river for a hundred years (so, who said you can't, or shouldn't, take it. With you when you go? The River Styx" Lotta Tjernström, 2002). View my complete profile.
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Inferno: Canto 11 -- Circle 6
Inferno: Canto 11 - Circle 6. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 11 - Circle 6. With the zeal of a Jesuit on the missionary hunt for souls to save, Fr. Earl has raced into Canto XI ahead of my morning post, I see. I did something similar in Egypt, once, on the cliffs leading down to the tomb of Hatshepsut. Henry Wace, in A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. Upon which Dante's structure is bu...
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Inferno: Canto 12 -- Circle 7, Round 1
Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1. While he is blind with Rage! Into the pass, quick, and get over the side! Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:36 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1.
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Inferno: Canto 13 -- Circle 7, Round 2
Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2. Saturday, January 22, 2005. Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2. Which shows not only contrition on the part of the poets for having added to the despair of a soul, but also an appropriate grief for the state of being into which such despair has been articulated. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 7:45 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2.
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Inferno: Canto 15 -- Circle 7, Round 3
Inferno: Canto 15 - Circle 7, Round 3. Monday, January 24, 2005. Inferno: Canto 15 - Circle 7, Round 3. Having left the Wood of the Suicides far behind them, the poets are met in their crossing of the burning plain by Ser Brunetto Latino, described by Ciardi as a "dearly-loved man and writer, one who had considerably influenced Dante's own development" (119). Brunetto's influence is cited by the character that Dante draws as he makes reference to his Treasure. Written before the Trésor.
