Cantos 28

Now in Cantos 28, we are in The Earthly Paradise and everything seems to be perfect. There was a completely different image being portrayed when we enter this level because before The Earthly Paradise, everything was so dark and horrible. This is why it’s called paradise because there is nothing bad about this place. The imagery that Dante uses is very delightful in a way. He states that there is “A gental breeze” and “they were not deflected with such force as to disturb the little birds upon the branches in the practice of their arts”. Personally, that seems like a beautiful place to be having the birds sing. A breeze that is nice and calm. It puts an image in my head like I am in Hawaii, sitting on the beach with the wind calmly blowing in my face. He also uses great imagery words throughout the beginning of the canto enabling the reader to picture an amazing forest or in this case The Earthly Paradise. I thought it was necessary to add some good imagery after the whole book leading up to this was very dark.

The image at the end of cantos 29 was very interesting because I feel like there is a lot of meaning behind it. There are angels, heads, and a bird all in the same image. So I was wondering if there was a deeper meaning to this image or if it was just those things showing what is on The Earthly Paradise.