Cantos 19-28 Reflection

Over the course of this past week I presented my Canto and watched my fellow classmates' presentations on Cantos 19-28. I have genuinely enjoyed listening about each of the Cantos and learning more about their sin and punishment. I always looked forward to hearing about each contrapasso because for me, that is the most interesting aspect. I like the concept of punishments corresponding with the sin; I find it very intriguing. In Canto 20, the sin was using unholy powers to see ahead in life and their punishment  is their heads are on backwards, so they can only see behind them. I think the contrapasso of this canto is so clever because since the sinner wanted and tried to see into the future, they are eternally looking where they have already been, or their past. Although many of the punishments in Dante's Inferno seem too cruel and harsh in my opinion, I find it very cool how Dante found a punishment that fit their sin symbolically.

As for my own presentation, I am very pleased with how it played out and I am proud of myself for not choking up while presenting (that seems to occur frequently when I speak in front of crowds...). After putting in hours upon hours of time and work, my presentation turned out what I hoped it to be as well as my visual representation. My favorite presentation I heard this week has to be Canto 28 presented by Paige. I think out of all the presenters should did the most thorough job and created the most complex and thought out visual demonstration. I thought the symbolism of the pottery clock she made was very clever and portrayed her canto well. The presentations on Dante's Inferno are almost over, which in a way saddens me because I have really enjoyed them.