Dante's Inferno cantos 3-12

[Canto 3]

• "the souls unsure" these are the souls that believed in God but did not fully follow him and were eventually sent to hell.
• "You will be brought to shore another way" this is setting Dante apart from the others and saying that he will get through it. He also thinks that he is one of the good souls that were brought to hell.

[Canto 4]

• "A heavy clap of thunder startled me up as by force" This can be symbolized as the presence of some great figure. For example to show the presence of God there was typically a great sound of thunder
• "The poet began dead pale now" This just reinforces the idea of how terrible and uncomfortable of a place it is. The idea of children, women, and men shows that even innocent people are there.

[Canto 5]

• In this canto they are where the people with lust are sent to. He lists off many names of people that died due to their love. This can signify how it proves the point why it was wrong for those certain people to die because they ended up in hell.
• "With raised wings steady against the current, glide guided by will to the sweetness of their nest." The idea of wings and flying could represent how the lovers are also like angels stuck in the wind of hell and can't get out. Through out there are many who are trying to escape hell and dont really belong there.

[Canto 6]

• "Threw goblets of earth down each voracious throat" It says how they struggled to devour it and ate it like they were gnawing meat. Virgil knew how to get past the beast and this shows how the people in hell pretty much make up all of the land and they live off of it.
• "When you return to earth's sweet light" This should be giving Dante confidence that he is going to make it out of hell because it doesn't say if or maybe it says when you return to earth. He is going to make it through all stages and hell and return back to earth.

[Canto 7]

• "Here I saw more souls than elsewhere spreading far to the left and right" This level of hell was for those who loved and depended on materialistic things. This can connect so much to the time that we live in and how wealth and everybody outdoing eachother is all that matters in people's lifes.
• Through out many this canto he refers to Virgil as his master. God is usually the master of people but in this division of hell they worship and think of materialistic things as there leader and master. Dante could specifically be calling Virgil master in this canto to prove that he does not belong in this division of hell.

[Canto 8]

• "who are you to come before your time" It is obvisous for the dead souls to recognize that Dante is there before he is dead. Not only does he have a body with weight unlike the others he probably shows a great deal of fear because he does not know what is to come.
• " It is fire blazing eternally inside of them that makes them appear within this inner hell." The idea that hell has caused them to turn red shows how hell changes a person from the inside out and they are not who they are not totally who they were before they got there.

[Canto 9]

• The three hellish Furies bring wrath and tourment. These can be compared to the description of Virgil, Statius, and Ovid is probably because in real life that is how Dante saw them.
• The erinyes are dresses and bright green hydras but are blood stained. These two contrasting ideas show how they seem to be sweet and try to hide who they really are like the tower in the begining.

[Canto 10]

• "dear guide believe me, I do not hide my heart from you" He is starting to feel a sense of abandonedment and does not want to be left alone in such a place. He is also putting his life in the hands of his guide.
• Farianta the leader of Florence gives Dante a scorful look as if it came straight out of hell. He died before Dante was even born so this shows how Dante probably didn't think very well of him when he didn't really meet him.