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inferno
Title: inferno
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1974 | Pages: 8.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
inferno
The Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri's poem, The Divine Comedy, written roughly around 1307-1308 chronicles Dante's figurative journey to God. In this poem, Dante is led by the ghost of Virgil, the Roman poet, who has come to rescue him from he dark forest and to lead him through the realms of the afterlife. Geoffrey Chaucer, who emerged as the leading poet in English literature during the late fourteenth century, some fifty years after …showed first 75 words of 1974 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1974 total…endlessly fascinating entity unto itself”.
Whereas “Chaucer’s art…lacks ‘high seriousness’” “, Dante’s story is perhaps the most intensely shocking in literature”, “the moral terror of Dante…shakes us so profusely.” The comparison thus establishes that whereas Dante sees evil as being a catastrophic obstruction toward man's attainment of the divine, and thus something to be taken very seriously, Chaucer accepts its human manifestations, presenting them in a more “modern” sense—humorously and ironically.
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