Divine Comedy and Dante

Dante Alighieris The inspired Comedy is a poem written in outset person that tells of Dantes altered-ego pilgrimage through the three realms of death, wickedness, Purgatory, and Paradise while trying to reach spiritual maturity and an understanding of Gods have sex while attaining salvation. Dante creates an imaginative correspondence between a souls sin on Earth and the punishment sensation receives in Hell. In the position of the transit of our life I came to myself in a bad wood where the straightway was woolly. (Canto I, pg. 11). Throughout The Divine Comedy, this is the only reference Dante, in my opinion, is referring to that dark place we all find ourselves in at some point in time in our own life. I, as Dantes Pilgrim, have arrange myself in this dark place or dark wood once I lost sight of the beaten path or where the straightway was lost that I was travelling (life). But, it was during this time that I was lost that I not only give myself, exclusively most impor tantly, I found my soul.I found the straightway path to my soul while in the dark wood. It is at this dark place or dark wood, that one begins not only to hunt for answers to ones sin but to seek answers to the questions of the heart and mind. It is here, of the straightway lost, where the heart and mind no longer struggle for right vs. wrong but to harvest peace. Peace within ones soul. The peace of ones soul is born once the heart and mind become one and with this peace one will continue to search for Gods salvation just as Dantes Pilgrim. The path to Paradise begins in Hell. (Dante The Divine Comedy. When Dante enters Hell on Good Friday, he reads the following posted above the gates of Hell as he is about to enter (Canto III, line 9) dispense with all hope ye who enter here. To leave Hell, Dante and his self-ego, must go through all nine circles of Hell, the deeper the circle, the more grave the sin and the sins punishment. The gravest punishment is that no one cares nor will help another while in Hell.Dante recognizes that those in Hell have chosen to be in Hell by their own choice but most importantly Dante learns to recognize and detest mans sinful nature and the power of evil, and the need to rubber against it. Hell has no hope. At times, it seems, more often than enough, that both the world and society are becoming increasingly hopeless. To misplace hope is to lose life. To lose life is to gain Hell.Living is caring and hoping for the well being of man for today and for days to follow. In the Divine Comedy, to leave Hell, one must go through nine circles of Hell. But, for us, are the nine circles of hell the nine hours in the day that we inject ourselves into society? At the end of every day, do we journey through nine circles of Hell? Do we abandon all hope as we enter the day? The path to Paradise begins in Hell. If this is to be true, then(prenominal) tomorrow may I awake in Paradise.