This 5 page report discusses the ninth U.S. poet laureate,Robert Pinsky, and Dante s Inferno. Drawing on information from an online discussion with The Atlantic Monthly in April of 1995, Pinsky s ideas as they realte to Dante are examined. American s view of one of the world s great literary classics. No secondary sources. The paper asserts that Western literature first mocked or dismissed the sexual expression of female self-determination, later turned it into a sin, and finally transformed it into a social gaffe, but until recently still continued to maintain that its suppression was not wrong.
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Special attention is paid to the significance of ice, which contrasts with our expectation that Hell is a lake of fire. No additional sources.