Dante's Canto XXVIII-
Dante's Canto XXVIII-
Dante begins the opening of Canto XXVIII with a rhetorical
question. Virgil and he have just arrived in the Ninth Abyss of the
Eighth Circle of hell. In this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism
are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses a
question to the reader:
Who, even with untrammeled words and many
attempts at telling, ever could recount
in full the blood and wounds that …
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…first claimed was impossible to ever put into
words. By pretending he could not express the image and then by fully
expressing it, Dante is reminding the reader of his extraordinary
talent and he is also forcing the reader to read more careful.
After examining this single passage from Dante's Inferno, I
came to a new understanding of the relationship between Dante and La
Commedia , as well as between Dante's images and his poetic task.
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