Question

Choose a tercet from Canto III of Inferno and rewrite it using symbols from your own life experiences. Think about how Dante's words could be interpreted using a modern interpretation and modern symbols. In your tercet, incorporate at least one literary device such as simile, metaphor, anaphora, and/or sensory language.

Answer 1

An analysis of a tercet from Canto III of Inferno using symbols from modern life experiences and incorporating literary devices.

Step-by-step explanation:

Analysis of Tercet in Canto III of Inferno

In Canto III of Inferno, Dante uses the tercet format to describe the entrance to Hell and the punishment of the souls who were neither good nor evil. The tercet, written in the ABA rhyme scheme, goes as follows:

'Through me you access the grief-stricken city,
through me the eternal pain, the lost people,
through me the fallen Abandon all hope.'

In a modern interpretation of this tercet, we can use symbols from our own life experiences to convey a similar sentiment. For example:

'Through my heart you reach the broken city,
through my mind the everlasting sorrow, the forgotten souls,
through my body the despair Give up all hope.'

In this modern tercet, I have incorporated sensory language and a metaphorical expression of personal struggles to convey the same sense of despair and hopelessness as Dante's original tercet.