Inferno
InfernoBy: Vova Vovochkin
Although it is hard to read Dante�s triple rhyme, I am thrilled by the Inferno�s ambiguity and allegoric power. It is really �a three-dimensional art.� Just like Picasso in his paintings, Dante makes me think about the meaning of the situations and their implications. Moreover, it is as visual as masterpieces of Picasso. Dante makes us believe in his narration involving our senses. This narrative poem astonishes me by the power of the language and by it�s mysticism. In the first canto we see Dante in �the dark wood of error.� While he tries to climb up the Mount of Joy, Dante meets three wild beasts, which make him lost in the midway. Dante introduces allegoric symbols of betrayal, violence and hunger. Later in the poem, those major sins described by the author in the circles of hell. Betrayal, the most serious sin that the person can commit, is represented...
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