Dante was good at using metaphors derived from real life and nature when shaping characters and describing situations. For example, he described the ghosts watching Dante and Virgil, saying that they look like the old tailor's gaze at the needle eye. The more unusual the scene he wrote, the more he use the familiar things to compare. The metaphor made the characters and scenes stood out. Dante also use metaphor to describe the psychological and spiritual state of the person. For example, after describing the words of Virgil, the doubts were abolished and the spirits were uplifted. It was like a small flower that was cold and invaded at night and closed down. Once it was exposed to the sun, it blossomed up and opened on the stalk.
Although the detailed description of "Divine Comedy" is highly skilled, its main achievement is also a high degree of generalization and synthesis. This work combined the poet's inner life experience, religious enthusiasm, and patriotic thoughts into a harmonious whole with historical and realistic, classical and Christian factors. At this point, "Divine Comedy" is indeed very successful.
"Divine Comedy" is a special epic, "Hell", "Purgatory", "Heaven" has 33 chapters, plus a total of 100 preludes, up to 14233 lines, the last line of each song was noted as "asterisk" Rhyme feet. This symmetrical layout and structure of the three realms in the poem were based on the mysterious and symbolic concept of numbers in the Middle Ages.
"Divine Comedy" was written in three rhymes, which was a new rhythm created by Dante based on a popular rhythm in folk poetry. More importantly, the "Divine Comedy" was written in Italian proverbs, which played a great role in solving the literary language problem of Italy and promoting the unification of the Italian language. This made Dante the first national poet of Italy.
"Divine Comedy" was originally called "comedy", and there is no drama in here. Due to the historical reasons of the evolution of the Roman era, the concept of drama, mainly performance art, had been very vague in the Middle Ages. It was used to refer to the literary works of narratives as tragedies or comedies, depending on the subject matter and language style. Because this work described the journey from hell to heaven, from suffering to happiness, the ending was complete, so it was called "comedy." In the article "Dantein" (1357~1362), Boccaccio praised this work as "sacred" and "comedy". For the first time in 1555, the Venetian version was titled "Holy Comedy" and was widely adopted. The Chinese translation is commonly known as "Divine Comedy."
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The author's commentary: Strictly speaking: "Dante's Divine Comedy" is of course a great literary masterpiece. This is beyond doubt. However, if we want to discuss it from the standpoint of "soul theory", "Dante's Divine Comedy" has no real meaning. It can only be said that this is the earliest and most intensive book about "Heaven and Hell". However, it is completely no describing about the function discussed. Basically, the whole "Divine Comedy" is only "but Ding’s personal literary genius and amazing imagination will be interpreted as "the heaven and hell" by "Christianity" and "Bible". It was written as a magnificent emperor's masterpiece. It was written like a immersive and full-fledged image. Inspired by the people, many famous paintings and famous works of "copper prints" were based on "Divine Comedy". If you want to adapt it into a script and shoot it into a movie, it must be very colorful.
However, the "Heaven and Hell" of the main axis and the scenes and stories of "Purgatory", "Dante" led all the readers of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries was the first person to complete these three different realms. Unfortunately, It was just the "three imagined realms" that the "Dante" created, not the real "three realms"--from the standpoint of the author's "soul" and "spiritual architecture" researchers: the "Three Realms" scene described by Divine Comedy and his "personal spiritual encounter" were almost completely false implying. The most obvious ones were: one was purely from the perspective of Christianity and the Bible. Undoubtedly it was very narrowing, biased and highly exclusive. Second, too many personal loves and hatreds were filled with them, including the enemy and political opponents, who had arranged very hellish and vicious tortures such as hell and purgatory to ruin them. At this time, "Dante" seemed to be God and can arbitrarily sin them and arbitrarily drive them into different hells.
For a man who was obsessed with his own unrequited love, blindly dedicating to this woman, "Beyat Liqi" (only 25 years old), but she was overly deified and placed in the most beautiful paradise, even surpassing the angels, too much or even exaggerating. Excessive praise and deified words make it hard to imagine that she used to be a mortal in the world. (The author thought that "the mortal world" has never had such a perfect and flawless beauty as described by "Dante" since ancient times. It was his serious unrequited love of the idol-like "Idolization" worship, which was presented in the "Divine Comedy".
Although it is not surprising from the perspective of literature; "such as three thousand feet of white hair (in one ofor old Chinese famous poem)" is not surprising, but a book with the theme of "three realms" was so explicit that it did not properly hiding It but instead of taking up so much space and full of weakness. About the objective and impartiality of the "Three Realms"--if this is the "Three Divine Divine Comedy", then better to say that it belongs to the "Divine" of "Dante". Otherwise, if all the enemies, political opponents and dream lovers are to be completely removed from this book--it probably won't be much readability. Thirdly, there were too many flaws and unreasonable and even illogical places in the description of the "Three Realms". However, fortunately, as long as you know that this book did not emphasize "personal experience," it is a private imagination out of thin air. "Day Dreaming" or "Sleep Walking", then you don't have to waste time to refute it.
"Lustful person”:
At this time, I began to hear those painful voices; at this time, I came to the crying ground, this cry made me feel unbearable. I came to a place where the light became hoarse, and there was a burst of waves, as if the sea was in a storm, and it was the reverse head wind that blown the sea.
The arrogance in hell always keeps blowing, and its violent power blows the ghosts to the east; the ghosts spin up and down with the wind, and the left and right tumbling, miserable.
They were blown into the broken pieces, and they screamed, wail, and complained; they cursed the power of the gods here.
I suddenly realized that it was the ghosts of the sensuality who suffered such painful torture here because they indulged their passions and lost their reason. Just like the wings of the purple-winged bird bring their group into the cold air, the wind also makes these evil ghosts up and down; they can never have any hope:
even if they just hope to suffer less pain, not Stop and not fly.
Just like the geese growing up in the air, they can't help but make a tragic sorrow. The ghosts that I have witnessed are also blown by the wind.
Therefore, I said, "Teacher, who are these people? They are so bitter by the dim airflow!"
"You want to know the situation of these people,"
My teacher said to me,
"The first of these is the Queen who ruled the people of many countries. She is so savage and sinister, and even her laws are set to do what they want, so that the world will not revile her."
She is "Semiramis", watching history books, she knows that she is the wife of Nino, and also inherited his throne. The territory she was in charge of at that time is the country that Sudan is governing today.
Another woman is looking for short-sightedness for love. She ruined the vows loyal to Hickes Ashes; the next is the adulteress Cleopatra.
Look, that is Helen. For her, how many tragic years have passed; you look at the great "Achilles" again.
For her, he has been fighting to death.
You see, it is "Paris" and "Tristan"; the teacher pointed out to me more than a thousand ghosts, one by one called their surnames, it is love that made them leave the world. Since I heard my teacher say the names of these ancient ladies and knights, the feelings of compassion suddenly caught my heart.
Before the tomb of Pope Anastasius:
We came to a high cliff, which was surrounded by huge gravel, and a group of ghosts with more cruel punishments were below us; here, the stench of the deep pits and the smell is terrible. It is hard to get close so we have to step back under the cover of a huge stone tomb. I saw an inscription on the tomb and wrote: "I am watching the Pope Anastasia. Futianus once lured him to leave the road."
"We can pause and go on, so that we can first adapt the sense of smell to the bad smell, and then don't care about it."
The teacher said this, for me, the words:
"Can you think of ways to keep time from ruining?" He said, "I have thought of this and you can see it."
Pope Nicole III:
"Who is this person, teacher? He is very painful and shakes people who are the same as other fates." I said, "The flame that burns on him is also redder." He replied, "Let me leadyou down the embankment that hangs down the lower portions, you can hear him personally explain himself and his sins."
I then said, "As long as you like, I will be happy, you are the master, you know that I will not deviate from your will, even if I don't say what I think, you will know." So, we came to the fourth Road embankment: We turned from the left and went down to the bottom of the ditch that was covered with holes and narrow.
The kind teacher didn't let me leave him until I led me to the hole where the person who cried with the leg was.
I began to say: "Ah! Sad soul! You are like a wooden stake, upside down, inserted in the ground, no matter who you are, if you can speak, please open your mouth."
I stayed there, like a priest who listened to the unfaithful killer to confess, and the murderer was buried in the pit. He called the priest and asked for the death penalty. At this time, he shouted: "Have you come here? Have you already come here, Bonnie Faqiu?" That life and death has kept me for years. Are you tired of being so early? The wealth what you had been gained? And in the past, in order to make a fortune, you were not afraid to deceive the good man, but then sold her to smear!"
I listened to this statement, just like people who didn't understand each other's answer, almost couldn't figure out what the mind was, and I don't know how to answer it. Virgil then said: "You immediately tell him: I am not that person, I am not the one you are for." I listened to the advice and answered.
This time, the ghost's moved his both feet slightly; then he sighed again, and said to me with a crying voice: "So, what do you ask me to do? Do you want to know, why I made you feel important so would run down the steep cliff. You should know that I used to wear a noble vestment.