The Divine Comedy

Informal Theme # 4
Blog # 4

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. It is composed of 14, 233 lines and it is divided into three canticas: Inferno, Purgaotio, and Paradiso, each consisting of 33 cantos. Inferno means hell, Purgatorio means purgatory, and Paradiso means heaven. At a deeper level, it represents allegorically the soul’s journey towards God. The poem tells Dante’s journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante’s ideal woman, guides him through Heaven. Dante was part of the Guelphs, White Guelphs, who in general favored the Papacy over the Holy Roman Emperor. In Hell and Purgatory, Dante shares in the sin and the penitence respectively. The last word in each of the three parts of the Divine Comedy is stelle, “stars”.

Divine Comedy has a great impact to me. It affects me so much. It’s like I’m afraid to commit mistakes for the reason that I might go to hell and experience those bloody punishments. I’m watching every action I’ll do and quickly asking for forgiveness if I have done something wrong. I’m always praying to God, not to wish, but to thank Him in everything He’s doing and giving to me.  This Divine Comedy inspires me a lot, to do good to other people, to help them and share all my blessings to them. We all don’t know what would be our afterlife. We don’t know where we will go. We don’t know what will happen to us after death. So, better do your best in everything because you’ll not know when God will get your life back. Do good things to other people if you want them to do the same.