Poetry is a great outlet for surging emotions. Teaching and learning poetry helps students respect and understand the views of people all around the world. Because we are in an age of increasing diversity, this is very important to education. The most important thing is, poetry can have a positive impact on students mental health. Poetry uses powerful imagery. Poems are the epitome of “show, don't tell.” In a poem, you don't have a lot of time or space to spend narrating or telling the reader what's happening.

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Dante's reaction to Francesca in Canto V has provoked differing interpretations. Some read the scene as evidence that he is symp

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I could be said that Dante might see what happened between Francesca and Paolo as adultery or lustfulness which might be considered to be the least hateful sin of incontinence. In his idea of Hell, the sinner chooses his/her sin and fails to repent. However, in the case of Francesca and Paolo, she did not choose her sin (adultery) but a weakness of will and as she was killed, she did not have the opportunity to repent.
Dante seems to choose a character who represents a sin and expresses poetically who committed that sin.

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