... source passage " betrayers of their own kind are plunged while in firey hell, up to their necks in ice." This refers to the center of Dante's's inferno, where the center is ice. The things symbolized in Frost's poems evolve from his life and what he cares about. There was a lot of symbolism in "Road Not Taken." "The ... ...
... finishes with a couplet, aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ff. This poem can be likened to the works of Dante who uses the terza rima style in his work the Divine Comedy. In the Inferno, Dante also covers similar dark themes of isolation and depression. Alluding to Dante was also perhaps, Frost's knowing wink to his more literary readers who, he believed would have noted the ... knowledgeable readers will note his use of complex rhyme schemes, such as the terza rima used in Acquainted with the Night and his allusion through this to writers such as Dante. But despite this his work remains highly reada...
... upper class. An example of an allusion is in T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" on pages 1068-1072. Eliot uses an allusion in the epigraph and cites Dante's "Inferno". It is written in Italian so only the most cultured English speakers can understand it. It is used to describe Prufrock's views of hell and is a premonition of his lonely ... ...
