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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

A poem and an explanation

I had written a poem and I was asked to explain it. First is the poem and then the explanation. Okies? Good. Let me know if it makes sense to you.

I have yet to name it~

Homer was a loner who never went to Paris, but who so spoke of him. Now, my man Virgil spoke of what happened after the fall. It was rather Romanesque, but architecture had nothing to do with it. He also did the rounds a la Dante. I thought it was hot on the spot at nine. Number nine repeating a beat of conception without reception because the antennas were down. Don’t frown! Alas cry for it was never paradise despite being a divine comedy. Do I detect a paradox? - Arachne

THE SIMPLE EXPLANATION:

Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey in which he writes about the Trojan war. Paris took Helen and caused Troy to fall. Paris was a person and not a place. Anyway, It is a beautifully written Greek tragedy.

Virgil wrote Aeneid from a Roman point of view. The main character Aeneas was also a character of Homer's Iliad and Virgil wrote of him finishing his journey in Rome.

The reference was made about Dante in regard to Virgil's trek with him through the nine levels of hell with the ninth being the worst one. The Divine Comedy consists of three books: Inferno, Purgartorio, and Paradiso in that order.

I use the number nine to represent the number of months for gestation of a human embryo. The repetition represents the continuation of life as well as the continuation of the nine levels of the Inferno which represent the nature a human exhibits albeit to varying degrees.

To cry because it was never paradise is to reference Paridiso. How can any of it be a comedy divine or otherwise? Even paradise can be lost according to John Milton.

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