ENG 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Sacred Language, Terza Rima, Psychomachia
13 Apr 2017
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The inferno board notes: genre: secondary epic, an epic that is written in origin rather than oral, divine comedy consists of three parts a. Very few people when they die go directly to heaven b. ii. In catholicism, most people go to purgatory first, where they are absolved of their sins before entering heaven: paradiso, each of these major parts is known as a canticle, each canticle is divided into cantos a. b. Inferno has 34 cantos and the two subsequent cantos have 33 each b. i. Total of 100 cantos: terza rima rhyme scheme, a poem whose organization is based on three lines each, known as a tercet in english, the first three lines c. i. The first and third line are going to rhyme c. ii. The second line rhymes with fourth and sixth c. iii. Aba, bcb, cdc, ded and so on: each line in the italian version has 11 syllables and each terza rima has 33 syllables d. i.
