Two people meet and love flows in the air
Love does not last it is destined to end
broken hearts, lost love, tears flow here and there
People do not care it's all for pretend
This advertised love it does not exist
What is love but a water-less ocean
When one finds another you are not missed
Wanted by all what a huge commotion
TV shows and movies, cheaters alike
They lead the corruption found within love
Not stopping at one but waiting to strike
It punches and kicks and ends with a shove
Whether a journey, flower, game, or fire
Love is a metaphor bound to expire
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Cheaters
“Ye made of defecation lies in the truth.”
This is what the sign had read right at the start.
For those at this level gaudy in themselves.
I saw pools of body waste not far apart.
Their fate and amount of waste controlled themselves.
The ruler found in this place is known as Lart.
Defecation piled in levels and levels.
Virgil said the sinners here were full of lies.
Some so buried under submerged as if tiny elves.
Past them were the cheaters, selfish in love and lust that
cannot see.
Punished with falling in a Love as their lovers cheat.
A short vision is given, then forever blindness and broken
hearts.
Worse cheaters would be forced to run backwards into a knife
stabbing their hearts so slow.
Pain enduring, their bodies heal just to be stabbed again
for eternal suffering.
The worst sinners would be turned to stone.
Alive, but forever stuck and never moving.
Suddenly, I grew weak
and I dropped.
Was this deepening inferno ending?
All 6 stanzas are written in Terza Rima, and the first 2 stanzas are written in 11 syllable lines. There are two types of sinners are found
within this level of hell. First, the cheap sinners whom are full of lies and false
identities, and secondly the sinners that were cheaters. It differs from the
levels of greed and lust because they are not greed but liars, cheaters, and
people who are full of falsehoods. The sinners found are cheaters of their own personal identities or cheaters in general. At first, Dante enters and sees many pools.
In each pool lie the wastes of that being. The contrapasso found here is that
because these people were always full of “crap” or lies all of their lives they
are now buried in their fraud and lack of truth and identity. This is located at level 8.5 right in between level 8 and 9. The sign at the
beginning of the poem reads “Ye made of defecation lies in the truth”, this
means that those who are made of crap are forever in crap. In other words,
those who were always lying and hiding their true identities by making stuff up
about themselves will now forever lie in their crap. The more that someone was
full of a fake self, the more crap they lied in. The more full of crap they
were the more submerged in crap they were. Also the crap is green because it is
a symbol of impurity. Next are the sinners whom had cheated or been unfaithful,
they were the least of the offense and they received eternal blindness. Blindness
was seen as mental and physical blindness. This symbolized physical blindness
because they could not see and mental blindness because they were unaware of
the circumstances. Then they were given vision and they saw all the horrible
things that had happened to them and they were left in eternal blindness and a
broken heart and the cycle would repeat. Those who were more serious cheater
and really harmed someone through cheating were eternally running backwards
into a knife that stabbed them through their backs into their hearts. The contrapasso here was that since they back stabbed others and left them with a broken
heart they were being back stabbed and left with a broken heart and this
process would go on and on. And lastly the worst offenders of cheating whom had
a disregard for anyone else were turned into stone. The contrapasso found here
was that because they had a stone heart they were eternally turned into stone
and they could never move.
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