![]() ![]() He hears the purposelessness ""of human misery,"" but cannot see it because of the ""turbid ebb and flow"" of the sea. Sophocles can hear the Aegean Sea, but cannot see it. However, the next six lines call upon auditory qualities, especially the words ""Listen,"" ""grating roar,"" and ""eternal note of sadness."" The distinction between the sight and sound imagery continues into the third stanza. A vivid description of the calm sea in the first eight lines allows a picture of the sea to unfold. The sea includes the visual imagery, used to express illusion, as well as the auditory imagery, used to express reality. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint his dreams of his manhood."" (from Winesburg, Ohio) With the recollection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. ""The young man's mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. ""primal forces cannot be denied even though the machine-age wants them to be."" Encouraged both Faulkner and Hemingway. Anderson's episodic bildungsroman has been compared often to Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Anderson made his name as a leading naturalistic writer with his masterwork, WINESBURG, OHIO (1919), a picture of life in a typical small Midwestern town, as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. "Writer whose prose style, derived from everyday speech, influenced American short story writing between World Wars I and II. ![]() Beatrice meets Dante in Earthly Paradise (Purgatorio) and acts as his guide through Heaven. Thus, she leaves her seat in Heaven to descend to Hell where she asks Virgil to serve as Dante's guide. ![]() In The Divine Comedy it is Beatrice who, out of love for the poet, initiates Dante's journey because she believes that he has strayed from a righteous path and she thinks that this divine journey will save him from himself. At the end of the journey, at the bottom of hell, Dante must face Satan and confront the problem of how to escape from the underworld.īeatrice serves as Dante's muse and inspiration. During this journey Dante encounters and holds conversations with the souls of the damned. The Inferno is an account of Dante's own journey, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil, through the nine levels of hell. Each volume divided into sections called Cantos.ĭante sets himself as the narrator and main character of this epic poem. A trilogy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Epic poem in terza rima (tercets or groups of three lines with interlocking rhymes: aba, bcb, cdc, etc.). ![]()
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