... sake. Dante is accompanied by the famous poet Virgil on his journey through the underworld to heaven. One of the first experiences of violence that they come 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 ... trapped in an eternal wind storm that blows them back and forth without any rest. The symbolism of this punishment is that lust has the ability to lead someone on aimlessly and needlessly just as the wind ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... not helping Boniface, between sin and virtue, and hence damnation and salvation, while the question confronting Prufrock is never spelled out, and its source never clearly identified. The 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 question, Prufrock fails to ... reply. Dominic Manganiello affirms in T.S. Eliot and Dante that Eliot connects the situations of the Pilgrim and Guido with Prufrocks both to ... circles of damnation, but by psychologic...

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• Grade Level: High School