The Inferno of Dante

i thought about how quickly we forget people. i felt that one way to make it contemporary was to extend and those poets who were dante writing to day, he might have also put in there. So shakespeare, milton a all the way to gertrude stein. And yes, sylvia plat, you know, this is a translation for to day. It's to draw new readers to the work. The back drop for the poem also includes our world. Part of what i rely on is dante's decision to write in the vernacular. We have his own writing where he says that poetry needs to be written in the vernacular because literary lat