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MIDWAYuponthejourneyofourlife 1 I found myself within a forest dark, 2 For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ahme! howhardathing it is to say What wasthis forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more; But of the good to treat, which there I found, Speak will I of the other things I saw there. I cannot well repeat how there I entered, So full was I of slumber at the moment In which I had abandoned the true way. But after I had reached a mountain’s foot, 3 At that point where the valley terminated, 4 Which had with consternation pierced my heart, Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders 1The action of the poem begins on Good Friday of the year 1300, at which time Dante, whowasborn in 1265, had reached the middle of the Scriptual threescore years and ten. It ends on the first Sunday after Easter, making in all ten days. 2The dark forest of human life, with its passions, vices, and perplexities of all kinds; politically the state of Florence with its fractions Guelf and Ghibelline. 3Bunyan, in his Pilgrim’s Progress, which is a kind of Divine Comedy in prose, says: “I beheld then that they all went on till they came to the foot of the hill Difficulty... But the narrowwaylayrightupthehill, and the nameofthegoingupthesideofthehilliscalled Difficulty... They went then till they came to the Delectable Mountains, which mountains belong to the Lord of that hill of which we have spoken before.” 4Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress– “But now in this valley of Humiliation poor Christian was hard put to it; for he had gone but a little way before he spied a foul fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon. Then did Christian begin to be afraid, and to cast in his mind whether to go back or stand his ground. ...Now at the end of this valley was another, called the valley of the Shadow of Death; and Christian must needs go through it, because the way to the Celestial City lay through the midst of it.”