I noticed, upon rereading my older blog posts, that I am transfixed on the medieval context the text is set in. From notions of medieval dream sequences to the medieval notion of illness transmitting via smell and notions of queerness in the Middle Ages and how these themes play out in The Divine Comedy. I wanted to, and to some extent still do, center my understanding of the text as a porduct of the Middle Ages and apply literary theory to enhance my understanding of the text.

I noticed that my ideas after my first blog, especially my most recent, deploy some use of the theory in my background along side analysis of the sections of the text in question. This is because my topics have become more specialized to accomidate the use of theory and history from my training that is outside of the text. I am doing this inorder to find a topic or a range of subtopics within one topic to write my final paper on. I am considering developing my ideas on queerness and seeing sodomy in Dante’s visions of hell.

From reading, I also noticed how I can imporve in fleshing out my ideas more and expanding beyond a paragraph and possibly using some more in text evidence to allow for a lenghtier and indepth discussion of the text. This is something I will be working more towards in the future, espeically having a system of how to tackle my thought proccess in these blog posts. I could also imporve by using an image once in a while to imporve my arguement aswell as enrich it by using a more multi-media approach.

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