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Divine Comedy is a long poem written by Italian poet Dante during his exile, and it is also a representative work of the poet. The poet used the popular fantasy literature form in the Middle Ages and described a story about a fantasy trip to hell, purgatory and heaven. Divine Comedy is a wonderful book, which makes Dante one of the four great poets in the world. However, in real life, due to the use of a large number of symbols and metaphors and endless allusions, people always stay away from them. Some people assert that no one can understand the Divine Comedy. The above factors make young people afraid to go to the Divine Comedy, for fear that their shallowness will desecrate the book. In fact, the interpretation of Divine Comedy is not easy, but it is not difficult.
Boccaccio, the master of decameron, praised The Divine Comedy, adding the word "sacred" before his works. Many poets, painters and musicians in later generations drew creative nourishment from The Divine Comedy, and were inspired by its artistic charm to create outstanding works. For example, Balzac's Comedy on Earth imitated the form of The Divine Comedy, and Goethe's Faust was even more wonderful.
Dante's Divine Comedy directly contributed to the formation of Italian national language, which is a connecting link in the history of European literature and is worthy of being a masterpiece.
Italy is the first capitalist country. A great man marks the end of the feudal middle ages and the beginning of the modern capitalist era. This figure is Italian Dante, who is the last poet in the Middle Ages and the first poet in the new era.
-Engels
Divine Comedy paved the way for the development of literature in the Renaissance. It has always been known as "the epic of the Middle Ages" and has had a far-reaching impact on the later world literature and art.
-History of world literature
The great value of Divine Comedy lies in its extremely broad historical picture, which reflects the changes in Italy's real life and social and political fields during the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times, and shows the humanistic light of striving for personality independence.
-A Brief History of Italian Literature
The poem Divine Comedy explores the subtle relationship between human body and spirit so deeply that it can be said to be a great spectacle in classical literature.
-the famous writer can Xue
Dante is a genius with a sense of modeling. In The Divine Comedy, he used his imagination to see things so clearly that he outlined them with sharp outlines. Even the most obscure and bizarre things he described seemed to face the real things in front of him.
-Goethe, a famous German poet
Dante's divine comedy
Dante's life is as chaotic as his time, which may explain why Dante's masterpiece has become the most neat long poem in existing poetry. When Dante was alive, his hometown Florence, like most parts of Italy, was always in the turmoil of partisan struggle. During this period, Dante acted as an official and propagandist, but it was not very successful, because in 1302, he was exiled. From then until Dante's death, he has been wandering around Italy, living between palaces and mansions, tasting the bitterness of exile.
In our modern eyes, Dante's love life seems quite simple and stable. According to his own account, at the age of nine, he met the little girl Bedric, and didn't see her again until nine years later. Soon, Bedric became the source of Dante's imagination. In Paradise, the last chapter of The Divine Comedy, Dante's relationship with a fairy sitting next to God is similar to that when Dante first met Bedric.
Dante called his long poem a comedy, because the whole poem began in hell-disaster and ended in heaven-happiness. As Dante himself said, The Divine Comedy has four meanings, and "implication" and "symbol" appear constantly. This is not only Dante's preference, but also a part of his ideological structure. Poetry often talks about current events at that time, because Dante is one of the few great writers who used newspaper materials to write the works we are talking about today.
Eliot once said in his famous paper that to appreciate the Divine Comedy, we should jump directly into the poem and not pay too much attention to its symbolic meaning. This may be the best way, and we can immediately understand the grand idea of the whole poem. Divine Comedy is a story about human life on the ground, but Dante imagined hell, purgatory and heaven, thus vividly describing our situation on the ground. Most of us live in a miserable hell, and like the residents of purgatory, we are punished for our crimes and thus redeemed. If you have Dante's strong belief, Dante's guidance and the guidance of the poet Virgil, the symbol of rational personification, you can enter the paradise described in "Heaven" by faith. Although Dante's writing motivation came from his time and many stories were popular among scholars at that time, his strong moral concept has been deeply injected into the minds of sensitive readers in this century. Dante's loyalty to human nature is no less than that of any modern novelist-his loyalty to human nature is beyond doubt.
Divine Comedy is presented to us in the form of poetry, and its great poetic imagination is clear, concise and conclusive. Simplicity and correctness are the essence of Dante's imagination. He can not only create vivid impressions, but also constantly create the most appropriate vivid images that can convey its true meaning. Even in ordinary translation, we can feel that Dante is still a great painter. Similarly, we can also appreciate the firmness, integrity and balance of the whole structure, and draw the conclusion that Dante is also a great architect.