Dante Canto
Essay by John Lopez • March 1, 2017 • Coursework • 708 Words (3 Pages) • 1,270 Views
Good +. This certainly is a vivid canto – very much in the Dantean style except for one thing. Some of the lines are much much shorter than what Dante would have. There also are a couple of spots where you have capital letters where there doesn’t seem to be a need for them (I marked them in red). Sometimes you use a capital letter for the first words in the lines, and sometimes you don’t. It’s best to be consistent.
John Lopez
Alpha:15
Outline
- Dante and Virgil hear screaming
- Virgil Explains sin
- Bestiality
- Enter into the hive.
- Sees a woman named Jenna Lean
- Her husband does not satisfy her sexually
- Has sex with a horse
- Sees male section
- Virgil explains he give birth through their anus
- Meet a male
- States his wife died and felt really lonely.
- Cannot take it anymore and has sex with an animal
- Dante cannot take it anymore and leaves the hive
The two travelers continued their journey to the center of the inferno. As they were walking they heard screams coming from a distant area. Virgil explains to Dante they are going to see sinners who have committed bestiality. As they kept walking they saw the entrance to the hive. When they entered inside they see a women giving birth to different types of animals. They meet a woman named Jenna Lean giving birth to a horse. She starts to claim her husband did not satisfy her sexual needs and decided to turn to her horse. Dante the Poet decides he cannot hear anymore and moves along the hive. He finds the section where the males are. Virgil tells Dante, males can not normally give birth to creatures, so the animals instead come from their anus. A male tells them he was alone since his wife died and decide to have sex with one of his animals. Dante does not want to hear anymore and runs out of the hive.
As we walked along the path,
we heard sounds occurring of child birth.
Virgil said “these people commit something worse than wrath
and now being punished for what they committed on Earth”
I look at Virgil with despair
“They found a Dearth
Of love while alive,
So they choose to have intercourse with animals.”
As we walked along, I saw a place appearing to look like a hive.
When we went inside, all we heard were dreaded screams.
As soon as we walked in, we saw a women giving birth.
Before I could even ask see said her name was Jenna Lean,
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