After reading my posts i realized that my first couple of posts were solely narrative posts as I failed to fully engage with the text. It was only during the next few that i was starting to engage and analyze the cantos. I noticed that my more successful posts were focused on Virgil as i find him to be a more interesting character than Dante.

Writing is definitely not my strong suit as bits of grammatical errors are sprinkled across my posts. Critical analysis and finding hidden meanings are things that I always struggled with, it never seems to click in my head. With a classical work such as The Divine Comedy it increases the difficulty of analyzing for me as now i must struggle to even grasp the most surface level understanding from the text. One thing that i should really improve upon is adding more text from the cantos into my posts to help support my analysis. There is also the lack of outside sources to draw from like Barolini’s comments or the comments from the book, these are insightful comments that have a much deeper understanding of Dante’s Divine Comedy and can provide me a better understanding of the text so i am able to grasp the topics and themes that Dante explores in his text.

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