Divine Comedy
Identify and explain another crux in the poem, selected from somewhere between Cantos VI and XXV. Find a particular moment of apparent ambiguity, ambivalence, and tension – a “crossroads” at which the reader must choose a direction to continue.
(1) Identify the crux.
(2) Explain its context or implications.
(3) Formulate a series of questions that pose alternative directions or possibilities of meanings.
(4) Develop one or more hypotheses for choosing a direction of interpretation, some ideas for clarifying the ambiguity, resolving the ambivalence, or making sense of the tension.