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Leyton .E .Franklin 2000
THOUGHTS about DANTE’S Alighieri’s INFERNO : UNFINISHED REVIEW
"Strange Fruit” (Recorded in 1939 by Billie Holiday And written by Abel Metropol)
"Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the root
Black bodies swinging
In the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging
From the poplar trees"
INTRODUCTION
Dante Alighieri’s written between 1308 and 1320; was like Puck or (Robin Goodfellow, of English mythology and significantly influences events in the world;) (mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester, delights in pranks and re-establish euro-centric thoughts system; planned and establish with influenced and use of accepted language; projected and remains, leaving non-white in a septet and suppression; decoding, plot and mythology characters used by Dante.
Fo whom an why, his written context of cultural references was projected?
Answering the above question, Aimé Césaire’ would. According to Aimé Césaire’s July 4 2017 2017 07 04 in ZOTERO, Dante’s world of the grotesque and of the dreamscape offered an imaginary which Césaire could exploit and put to the service of an aesthetic already invested in the recording and performance of personal and cultural memories linked to the hellish slave trade and to colonial violence. Additionally, the movement from historical particularity to a more universal accessibility which characterizes And the Dogs Were Silent from 1946 onwards coincides with the author’s renewed vows to surrealism and his belief in its power to translate a broader liberatory aesthetic, without sidestepping the historical mooring of his poetics. For Césaire, who had until then considered himself a prisoner of reality, of the Cahier (Césaire [1939] 1956) and of its “theme”
surrealism, offered the possibility “to let yourself speak. To let your dreams invade you. To let its images dominate you. It wasn’t a question of ‘thesis’ or ‘theme’ anymore. It was simply a matter of braving life, all of life” (Césaire quoted in Gil 2013, 122).
Without forsaking the “thesis” or the “theme”, this refined position allowed Césaire to summon Dantean patterns of the descent as part of the revolutionary surrealist aesthetic he fashions in And the Dogs Were Silent. The goal of a poetic reconnection with the unconscious seems to echo in the Rebel’s “journey” of self-discovery, one that represents a “symbolic process” in Jungian terms – a path opened into the hero’s unconscious, which brings about a renewal of consciousness, in a way highly reminiscent of Dante’s experiences in the Divine Comedy.
In continuing my thoughts, the narrative with expression displayed to his public for reactions; creating critical minds of confusion, compounded with euro-centric radical stereotypes; historical references to the conditions of the rulers that control others. We have to remove from what he favoured and projected to his peers (using a fine teeth come fo check it out); using his authority and historical facts to perpetuate their structure of thoughts; accepted by them (like birds wid de same feathers, hound-out together.)
Could it be dat Dante’s comedy, aided in sett-in-up de stage fo
de continual re-construction for de non-white in de world? A world where everythin we do, say, learn, eat or live is controlled by euro-centric rulers, who repeatedly changes, their system, fo maintain power. Using Mighty Shadow (Track 2 Release Date January 2019), song “Human in pain”
On the very last day
Everyone will get paid
Through thе flesh and through the Spirit
Of our Lord Jesus Christ
Thе eternity is the judgement upon thee
The great tribulation resets all things
SUPPORT FOR
A review of the comedy: Uncovering a C.L.R James (Trinidadian) treasure trove newSocialist March 27, 2018; article originally published by socialistworker.org;
. . . James stated, . . . The History of the Russian Revolution “will remain a bridge between the long line which leads from the Old Testament and Homer, the Greek tragedy, Dante and Cervantes.”
Concept of the afterlife has been framed by Dante's Divine Comedy, which terrified and enraptured people with its journey through the lands of the dead. Dante’s (a young crusader who becomes disenchanted with war and returns to his fiancée Beatrice in Florence) tour of Hell itself, is about a man's fight to save the woman he loves, arrives, finding his house destroyed and the woman he loves, lying dead outside. Dante introduces us to Lucifer who appears and steals away her soul, dragging her screaming (although found dead) into the depths of Hell and the inflated lover (Dante) chases them through the circles of Hell, trying to save his love before she is lost forever (already lost for ever). He faces his own sins (like all born humans) and mistakes before a final showdown with the fallen angel, his Inferno literally pushes the Mature rating to its most extreme point; passing scenes of souls being tortured, loads of violence, and plenty of male and female nudity from level to level; exploring the extreme nature of Hell and punishments, in the afterlife. Dante primarily uses his scythe to hack through demons and other malevolent creatures that get in his way. He can also wield the power of the cross as a ranged attack to keep monsters at a distance. When you destroy a beast, you acquire its soul. Dante's Inferno, you'll have to go through challenges, each of different battle. Dante’s Inferno has become a literary classic. Dante’s customers, were the upper and middle society (notaries in the court system); it was also printed by some that knew him and in two languages, latin, Italian Spanish - - - and had a eagle image displayed in parts of the book; it was released to coincide with annual event during Easter(from the exhibition and lecture at Cornell; September 2021).
CRITICAL CARIBBEAN EXPOSURE
As in Dante’s poems, the Caribbean is plague with trivia, love, hell, fire, miss-trainin an it real: according to Caribbean or Carib lingo, we grow-up listen-in to we liv-in in hell (living Caribbean experiences); invisible with a story to tell, they must hear us, third World (Jamaican reggae singers); the calypso singer refers to hell as poverty; “Poverty IS HELL”, 1994, by Mighty Shadow:
Poverty is Hell is hell and the angels are in Paradise
Driving in their limousine where everything is nice and clean
Poverty is hell! Poverty is hell!
. . . Wake up in the morning and the baby cry
The sugar pan empty, the milk bottle dry
The little boy child on the mango tree
The mango green
. . . Ten little children, four dumplings
Mummy got to slice them thin, thin, thin
A piece for a boy and a piece for a girl
A piece for the neighbour daughter Merle
I further state, Dante’s representations of trials and tribulations existing in the real earth’s inferno and hell; mourning through Hell on earth, toward sour transition, to the land of transition and no return, as the religious thoughts enforce; black and brown humans continue to experiences similar devastating results, on earth; love and relations encountering no unity, receiving first, second and third burns where only the upper and middle classes (class system) in the community get first treatment; the working class, are ignored because of their deplorable social physical condition; physical condition, developed by the euro-suppressive and controlling system (all over the world); as they would say in the Caribbean, de arm of de law/rulers are lang.
CRIES OF CARIB and LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLE
Remains in a brainwashing state by projected commercial and political influence, offering a counterweight to the spread of misinformation; according to Sparrow a Caribbean calypso and soc-ca singes, talks about the education training in schools, from the song, “Dan IS THE MAN’ January 1965:
According to the education
You get when you small
. . . But in my days in school
They teach me like a fool
The things they teach me
You know it is fictitious
Without pretence
Cutteridge wanted to keep us in ignorance!
. . . I ain't believe dat no one man could write
. . . So much stupidness
Dey beat me like ah dog to learn that in school
If me head was bright ah woulda be a damn fool!
Ah should be ah block-headed mule and under-construction development (lack of funs)
SCHOOL DAZES OF FEAR AND TEARS
During school days, the training process of young minds, started with control 101; joined with physical abuse (licks like peas) from teachers (males and some females of the upper and middle class, against the working class) to retain euro centric thoughts; a behaviour I often wonder about and scared of, and ask why was it allowed to fester; continual of slave (by black/brown on their own) abusive system by white rulers no blacks; has gotten worst, with the international overload from the television; projecting images and comfort living (most cannot, get their hands on), exposed to, daily; entering and corrupting minds from euro-centric structure of thoughts; can’t leave the books, their authors, published, (having commanding influences, implemented, by euro-centric thoughts of authority); with the same objections (control, rule, maintain with social racism), controlling the market and publishing (keeping cultural thoughts out), and remain trying.
IN-DE-PEN-DENCE AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT
Further stating, anywhere the European system ruled; most countries have gained in-de-pen-dent (remain depending on the European system); under the British Legal and other systems, without developing their own system; any attempt to change the euro-system that person will become like, Thomas Sankara, Head of State of Burkina Faso, killed in a coup d'état organised by Blaise Compaoré in October 15, 1987; cannot and remain depending and controlled and placed in power with the pass rulers( house niggers as Malcom X talked about). According to Walter Rodney, Underdevelopment makes sense only as a means of comparing levels of development. It is very much tied to the fact that human social development has been uneven and from a strictly economic viewpoint some human groups have advanced further by producing more and becoming more wealthy. (15)”
― Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: We can’t even elevate our currency on the market, without being told to (by those who control the rise and fall-like the Stock exchange). Thy only changed the system from White to Caribbean people, are into driving seat; “There is the mistaken belief that black people achieved power with independence (e.g., Malaya, Jamaica, Kenya), but a black man ruling a dependent state within the imperialist system has now power. He is simply an agent of the whites in the metropolis, with an army and a police force designed to maintain the imperialist way of things in that particular colonial area.” ― Walter Rodney, The Groundings with My Brothers: According to Franklin Fraser In his book, (Black Bourgeoisie, first published in 1957-Free press), one can’t achieve political power, without being finically independent. Also black and brown people can never racist but .. .
Using another Caribbean song, showin dem leaders in de sunshine in de drivin seat, wid-out gainin total control from de past rulers; according to Black Stalin, in his (1992, Straker’s) song, remarking on the Caribbean countries attempt at unity and have in control:
“CRY OF THE CARIBBEAN”
Caricom is wasting time
De whole Caribbean gone blind
If we don't know from where we comin'
Then we cyah plan where we goin
Dats why some want to be communist
But then some want to be socialist
And one set ah religion to add to de foolishness
Look ah man who doh know his history
He have bought no unity
How could ah man who do know his roots form his own ideology
NOT FINISHED
