Dante, the poet, and author of the Inferno, was a Renaissance-era artist who was interested in the historical time between 1300 and 1600. He was fascinated and dedicated to the church, which is why he conducts the Inferno, a description of hell and its sufferings. Dante is trapped in a...
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Dante's Divine Comedy Dante's Divine Comedy is divided into three major "cantiche": inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise). Each cantica is organized in multiples of three, with hell containing nine rings, equivalent to Purgatory's nine terraces and paradise's nine heavens. The number three represents the Holy Trinity, on which he...
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Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses Ulysses is a textbook poem published in 1833. This poem is a dramatic monolog of the classical character of the myths of Greece. Ulysses finds himself briefly bored after returning home to Ithaca after a very long trip. The banality of ordinary life makes him ill. And...
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