Dantes Inferno Essay

As readers in the modern age, it is sometimes hard for us to examine and understands the words and messages due to the bridge between the ancient classical poems and the modern age poems. In Dante’s inferno poem, it is very challenging to analyze the information in such a rigorously written poem and relate the same poem to the said writer (Williams).
Understanding the poem goes beyond the fiery depth of hell and into the real world of Dante and the surroundings that influenced his writing and creativity. The involvement of Dante allegro in ancient political factions, in his own city state, led to his exile and consequently his demise. His mortality will forever felt from his work as readers will constantly warn of the rot in the political and church corruption.
In the poem, Boniface is not only a cleric to be condemned. Hell is full of them; Celestine is among the neutrals despite his holiness.Most of the early commentators agree on this identification-not only because he rejected God’s will but also presumably because in resigning from the papacy, denying his responsibility.He left the door open for Boniface and his corruption.The circle of greed filled with popes and cardinals, whose guards shouts “Pape Satan”, a phrase that suggests to an early commentator bishop calling his pope Satan.A Pope, as well as a cardinal, appears in the circle of heresy: Simony is dominated by popes, hypocrisy by monks or friars. There is probably an allegorical reference to the church in the Suicide Pier Della Vigna (Canto X111), Whose name “Peter of the vineyard”, suggests a perverted image of St.Peter, the first pope, a martyr for the vineyard contemporary popes are laying waste.Pier was at the court of the emperor Fredrick.Federico, whose name ...

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...X or another film, the readers of Dante need modern comparison to the ways of the past to understand the central theme of the story and to fully grasp the impact of such a powerful song and its impact on the societies in Europe.
Dante’s work is very hard to comprehend and understand to many modern readers hence the importance of using films or other poems with similar creativity in order for modern readers to understand the poem. The various journey of Dante to hell helps the readers to have a picture of how hell is and how real it is.Dante uses his poem to expose the rot in the church and also how dirty politics has become.

References
Alighieri, Dante. Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press., 1995.
Williams, Charles. The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 1942.