Dante+Poet

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 Durante degli Alighieri was Born in Florence in 1265. At the early age of nine he met the eight year old Beatrice who would play a significant role in his life and be a part of a few of Dante's poems. In 1285 Dante was married and during the time between 1285 and the when he was exiled from Florence he was extremely involved in cultural and civic life. Dante even held a few political positions before he was exiled and served as a soldier. In the year 1301, conflicts were rising between the "Blacks" faction and the "Whites" faction. The "Blacks" were able to take control of the "Whites" and eradicate the "Whites" political grasp. Dante belonged to the "Whites" faction and was exiled with the rest of his factions when the "Blacks" won the conflict. After the exile, Dante never returned to his previous political roles but remained interested in Italian politics. He moved around to several Italian cities including Verona and Ravenna. Ravenna is where Dante completed one of his best works, the "Paradiso", and where he would eventually die in 1321. It is believed that Dante studied under Brunetto Latini who taught him about writing and philosophy. The article states, "But the fullest medieval embodiment of Dante's ideal is his own writings. In them we see for the first time a powerful thinker, solidly grounded in Aristotle, patristic theology, and thirteenth-century scholastic debate, bringing these resources directly to bear on educating his countrymen and inspiring them to pursue the happiness that rewards the philosopher"(Stanford). Since Dante's works were noticed, he has played a large role in the lives of many modern writers. Although dante no longer lives, his knowledge and skill still influences modern society. =====

Aim: The Purpose of Dante's poems are to provide a message that influences the reader and allows them to learn more about the time period that Dante lived in as well as modern society. The effect of Dante's writings and the messages that they bring often hold true today. "The Monarchia" was one of Dante's most influential poems of his day and was writen for the purpose of explaining to the readers "to demonstrate the necessity of a single ruling power, reverent toward but independent of the Church, capable of ordering the will of collective humanity in peace and concord" (Stanford). Dante's message in the poem was different than the purposes of other writers. This was because it went against the power of the church at the time and supported a single ruler.

Audience: Dante's primary audience were people of his same faction. The secondary audience were others that took an interest in his poems. Many of Dante's poems reflected the strong influence that politics had on him. One article states, "The Inferno can therefore be read as a piece of propaganda against Dante's enemies"(GradeSaver).This means that he would defend his faction during the conflict by writing poems and stories that portrayed his side of the faction as superior to the other. Dante assumed that his audience were people who had similar interests and used this connection between him and the audience to boost his side of the faction. Many of his writings were for entertainment, but a few were for the purpose of attacking his enemies through literature rather than violence. This is a strength because it allows him to connect with other people who feel similar about the conflict at hand or enjoy the entertaining stories present in his poems.

Historical: Historical and political events strongly influence the relationship between Dante and his audience. Due to the huge role politics played in Dante's life before the conflict, as well as his constant interest in Italian politics, the relationship between him and his audience is strengthened. Many of Dante's poems reflect his interest in politics, and that creates a common interest between him and his readers. One article states, "he remained passionately interested in Italian politics"(Stanford). His persuasion is strongly influenced by his feelings for his faction, the 'Whites", and his political mindset. This allows him to educate the reader but also has an effect on how they view the conflict between the "Whites" and the "Blacks".

Cultural: Cultural events influence the relationship between Dante and his because they share similar cultural customs and experiences. Dante grew up in a culture that had a conflict continually rising until people took actions. This is present in his poems and effects how his readers view the outcome of the conflict. One article states, "Dante was admired for his spiritual writings and vision during not only the Renaissance period but also in the modern age"(Storydreamer).Dante's persuasion has a very strong effect on modern society because it highlights secrets of the past and provides an interesting writing style. Many people in modern society use the unique writing style of Dante to write their own poems, and look to him as a guide when writing.

Poems by Durante degli Alighieri:

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Within that heaven which most his light receives =====

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Nor knows, nor can, who from above descends; =====

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Has been enough for me, but now with both =====

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As at the time when Marsyas thou didst draw =====

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Out of the scabbard of those limbs of his. =====

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O power divine, lend'st thou thyself to me =====

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Thou'lt see me come unto thy darling tree, =====

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And crown myself thereafter with those leaves =====

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Of which the theme and thou shall make me worthy. =====

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(The fault and shame of human inclinations,) =====

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That the Peneian foliage should bring forth =====

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A little spark is followed by great flame; =====

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Shall prayer be made that Cyrrha may respond! =====

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Uprises the world's lamp; but by that one =====

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Which circles four uniteth with three crosses, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With better course and with a better star =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tempers and stamps more after its own fashion. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost that passage had made morning there =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And evening here, and there was wholly white =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That hemisphere, and black the other part, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I saw turned round, and gazing at the sun; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus of her action, through the eyes infused =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And sunward fixed mine eyes beyond our wont. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There much is lawful which is here unlawful =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like iron that comes molten from the fire; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As Glaucus, tasting of the herb that made him =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Impossible were; the example, then, suffice =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Him for whom Grace the experience reserves. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Createdst, Love who governest the heaven, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thou knowest, who didst lift me with thy light! =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When now the wheel, which thou dost make eternal =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By harmony thou dost modulate and measure, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then seemed to me so much of heaven enkindled =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By the sun's flame, that neither rain nor river =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E'er made a lake so widely spread abroad. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The newness of the sound and the great light =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And she began: 'Thou makest thyself so dull =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With false imagining, that thou seest not =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What thou wouldst see if thou hadst shaken it off. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thou art not upon earth, as thou believest; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But lightning, fleeing its appropriate site, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ne'er ran as thou, who thitherward returnest.' =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By these brief little words more smiled than spoken, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In what way I transcend these bodies light.' =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Her eyes directed tow'rds me with that look =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And she began: 'All things whate'er they be =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have order among themselves, and this is form, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here do the higher creatures see the footprints =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whereto is made the law already mentioned. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the order that I speak of are inclined =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hence they move onward unto ports diverse =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O'er the great sea of being; and each one =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With instinct given it which bears it on. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This bears away the fire towards the moon; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is in mortal hearts the motive power =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This binds together and unites the earth. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Without intelligence this bow shoots forth, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But those that have both intellect and love. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Makes with its light the heaven forever quiet, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wherein that turns which has the greatest haste. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Accords not with the intention of the art, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So likewise from this course doth deviate =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes the creature, who the power possesses, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Though thus impelled, to swerve some other way, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(In the same wise as one may see the fire =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Earthward is wrested by some false delight. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thou shouldst not wonder more, if well I judge, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From some high mount descending to the lowland. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Of hindrance, thou wert seated down below, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As if on earth the living fire were quiet.' =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thereat she heavenward turned again her face. =====

Literary Elements:

Point of view: Definition: The point from which the author presents the story. Effect: This poem is set in first person point of view. This is because it uses terms such as "I" and "me"

Setting: Definition: Where the action takes place. Effect: The setting of the poem takes place on the earth and the heavens. The protagonist marvels in the power of the gods and the beauty of the heavens.

Protagonist: Definition: the central character. This is the character that the story follows throughout. Effect: The protagonist is a mortal person who is looking up into the heavens and admiring what it beholds.

Song with similar Literary Elements:

This song is similar to Paradiso: Canto 1 because it talks about the heavens and the power of god. The song and the poem have similar literary elements such as point of view, setting, and the protagonist. Great god is by Carmen and seems to explore similar ideas as Paradiso. Both the song and the poem describe the power of god and the beauty and power of the heavens. The techniques exist throughout the song and the poem, and are not isolated to one place in eaither of the pieces.

Great God by Carmen
God is a God of righteousness

God sits on the throne

God is strong in battle

God is God alone

God wise and merciful

God is soverign Lord

God is pure and holy

God reigns forevermore

CHORUS:

He's a great God, a righteous King

Ruler over everything

He's a great God, we will proclaim

Honor and glory to his name

God holds up the universe

God sustains the soul

God exalts and God puts down

God is in control

God's glory is eternal

God is love and peace

God knows all, sees all, is all

God is to be praised

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Blessing and glory and wisdom

Thanksgiving and honor and power and might

Be to our God forever and ever

And all the saints said

Holy...Holy

Holy...Holy

Holy...Holy

Is, His, Name

Great God, great God

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For the straightforward pathway had been lost. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which in the very thought renews the fear. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But of the good to treat, which there I found, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speak will I of the other things I saw there. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I cannot well repeat how there I entered, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But after I had reached a mountain's foot, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At that point where the valley terminated, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which had with consternation pierced my heart, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which leadeth others right by every road. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That in my heart's lake had endured throughout =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The night, which I had passed so piteously. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And even as he, who, with distressful breath, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So that the firm foot ever was the lower. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which with a spotted skin was covered o'er! =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The time was the beginning of the morning, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And up the sun was mounting with those stars =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That with him were, what time the Love Divine =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At first in motion set those beauteous things; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The hour of time, and the delicious season; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But not so much, that did not give me fear =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He seemed as if against me he were coming =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With head uplifted, and with ravenous hunger, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So that it seemed the air was afraid of him; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And many folk has caused to live forlorn! =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With the affright that from her aspect came, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That I the hope relinquished of the height. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And the time comes that causes him to lose, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who weeps in all his thoughts and is despondent, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E'en such made me that beast withouten peace, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thrust me back thither where the sun is silent. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While I was rushing downward to the lowland, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before mine eyes did one present himself, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who seemed from long-continued silence hoarse. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">'Whiche'er thou art, or shade or real man! ' =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He answered me: 'Not man; man once I was, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">'Sub Julio' was I born, though it was late, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And lived at Rome under the good Augustus, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Son of Anchises, who came forth from Troy, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But thou, why goest thou back to such annoyance? =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why climb'st thou not the Mount Delectable, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which is the source and cause of every joy? ' =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">'Now, art thou that Virgilius and that fountain =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which spreads abroad so wide a river of speech? ' =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I made response to him with bashful forehead. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That have impelled me to explore thy volume! =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The beautiful style that has done honour to me. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Behold the beast, for which I have turned back; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.' =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">'If from this savage place thou wouldst escape; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because this beast, at which thou criest out, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But so doth harass him, that she destroys him; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That never doth she glut her greedy will, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And more they shall be still, until the Greyhound =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comes, who shall make her perish in her pain. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He shall not feed on either earth or pelf, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">'Twixt Feltro and Feltro shall his nation be; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Euryalus, Turnus, Nisus, of their wounds; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Through every city shall he hunt her down, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Until he shall have driven her back to Hell, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There from whence envy first did let her loose. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Therefore I think and judge it for thy best =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And lead thee hence through the eternal place, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where thou shalt hear the desperate lamentations, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shalt see the ancient spirits disconsolate, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who cry out each one for the second death; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And thou shalt see those who contented are =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Within the fire, because they hope to come, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whene'er it may be, to the blessed people; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To whom, then, if thou wishest to ascend, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A soul shall be for that than I more worthy; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With her at my departure I will leave thee; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wills that through me none come into his city. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He governs everywhere, and there he reigns; =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By that same God whom thou didst never know, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thou wouldst conduct me there where thou hast said, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That I may see the portal of Saint Peter, =====

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Literary Elements:

Point of view: Definition: The point from which the author presents the story. Effect: This poem is set in first person point of view. This is because it uses terms such as "I" and "me"

Setting: Definition: Where the action takes place. Effect: The poem takes place in a dark forest as he is beginning his journey through hell.

Protagonist: Definition: the central character. This is the character that the story follows throughout. Effect: The protagonist is Dante himself and describes his journey through hell. In the first Canto, it explains a few of his struggles and how he entered hell.

The song "The Mass" by Era portrays the power of god and is a strongly religous song. Both the song and the poem have common literary elements such as setting. Both of the works are set in a forest for a large amount of the time, also, the song features people admiring the power of god, just as Dante does in Inferno.

Similar song: Era-The Mass

Lyrics:

Semper crescis

Aut decrescis

Vita detestabilis

Nunc obdurat

Et tunc curat

Ludo mentis aciem Nunc obdurat

Et tunc curat

Ludo mentis aciem

Egestatem

Potestatem

Dissolvit ut glaciem Divano

Divano me

Divano messi

Divano messia

Divano messia Divano

Divano me

Divano messia

Divano messia Sors salutis

Et virtutis

Michi nunc contraria

Est affectus

Et defectus Semper in angaria

Hac in hora

Sine mora

Corde pulsum tangite Divano

Divano me

Divano messi

Divano messia

Divano messia Divano

Divano me

Divano messia

Divano messia In divano Sors salutis

Et virtutis

Michi nunc contraria

Est affectus

Et defectus Semper in angaria

Hac in hora

Sine mora

Corde pulsum tangite Divano

Divano me

Divano messi

Divano messia

Divano messia Divano

Divano me

Divano messia

Divano messia Hac in hora

Sine mora

Corde pulsum tangite

Quod per sortem

Sternit fortem

Mecum omnes plangite <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to the short day and to the whitening hills, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">when the colour is all lost from the grass, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">though my desire will not lose its green, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that speaks and feels as though it were a woman. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by the sweet season that warms all the hills, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">so as to clothe them with the flowers and grass. =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">because she blends her gold hair with the green =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">so well that Amor lingers in their shadow, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have seen her walk all dressed in green, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">so formed she would have sparked love in a stone, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">so that I wished her, in those fields of grass, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The rivers will flow upwards to the hills =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">before this wood, that is so soft and green, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for me, who would choose to sleep on stone, =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">only to gaze at where her clothes cast shadow. =====

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hides it, as a man hides stone in grass.
Literary Elements:

Point of view:

Definition: The point from which the author presents the story.

Effect: This poem is set in first person point of view. This is because it uses terms such as "I" and "me"

Setting:

Definition: Where the action takes place.

Effect: The poem takes place across the land including hills, mountains, and plains.

Protagonist:

Definition: the central character. This is the character that the story follows throughout.

Effect: The poem features a man that travels far to be with a woman.

Similarities: Both the song and the poem are about a man that is traveling far and will do anything to be with the one they love. The setting is similar because each of the protagonists would travel far distances to be with the one they love. The point of view of the poem and the song are both written in first person. The techniques exist throughout the poem and the song and do not exist in only a specific section.

Similar song: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye

Lyrics: Listen, baby Ain't no mountain high Ain't no vally low Ain't no river wide enough, baby

If you need me, call me No matter where you are No matter how far Just call my name I'll be there in a hurry You don't have to worry

'Cause baby, There ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough Ain't no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you

Remember the day I set you free I told you You could always count on me From that day on I made a vow I'll be there when you want me Some way,some how

'Cause baby, There ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough Ain't no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you

No wind, no rain

My love is alive Way down in my heart Although we are miles apart If you ever need a helping hand I'll be there on the double As fast as I can

Don't you know that There ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough Ain't no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you

Don't you know that There ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough Ain't no river wide enough

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times; font-size: 12pt;"> Works Cited "Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Background." //Study Guides & Essay Editing//. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 May 2014.

Wetherbee, Winthrop. "Dante Alighieri." //Stanford University//. Stanford University, 29 Jan. 2001. Web. 05 May 2014.