FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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At the end of my existential journey, I found myself in a dark and sinful condition, as I had lost my way.
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Halfway through my life, I found myself in a forest at night, never finding my way home.
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At the beginning of my life, I lost my way, and found myself in a dark forest.
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In the middle of my life, I found myself in a sinful and dark condition, as I had lost my way.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Summary and Analysis Canto I. In the middle of the journey of his life, Dante finds himself lost in a dark wood, and he cannot find the straight path. He cannot remember how he wandered away from his true path that he should be following, but he is in a fearful place, impenetrable and wild.
Detailed explanation-2: -Read more about the poem as a medieval allegory. From the opening lines, Dante makes clear the allegorical intention of his poem: “Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself / In dark woods, the right road lost” (I. 1–2).
Detailed explanation-3: -Inferno 1 is the first canto in Dante’s Divine Comedy and perhaps the most famous of the epic poem. Dante, author and protagonist of the poem, is in the middle of the journey of his life, in a dark forest. It is horrible, tangled, and wild, and only the memory of it makes Dante scared.
Detailed explanation-4: -The time was at the beginning of the morning, and the sun was mounting up with all those stars, that were with him when Divine Love first moved all delightful things, so that the hour of day, and the sweet season, gave me fair hopes of that creature with the bright pelt.