... Dante's Inferno," " by Dante Alighieri, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Dante Alighieri's epic confronts the reader and audience with a sense of violence, portrayed like no other. With the abandonment of hope at the gates of hell, the scenes in the epic are able to be described so gruesomely and paint a vivid picture of what the nine circles of hell ... across is in the second circle of hell. In this circle of hell, there are the souls that were overcome by lust. These souls are described as "Carnal sinners who subordinate reason to desire." (Cantos VI, 38-39). The souls are...

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... wondering what could have happened. Jay Dougherty compared Prufrock to the character, Guido de Montafeltro, the doomed spirit in Dantes A Divine Comedy. He suggests that Eliot used the headnote from Dante because Guido and Prufrock were both faced with an overwhelming question (Dougherty.) Dougherty goes on to explain that the questions they faced made them question their selves and they way ... poem, rather, focuses on Prufrocks inability, in the absence of any absolute, any right or wrong, to confront the question (39). While both Guido and Prufrock must answer an overwhelming questio...

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