From 1308 to 132 1, it took Dante 13 years to complete his masterpiece The Divine Comedy. In his poems, he poured infinite nostalgia and longing for Italian history and future, criticized the ugliness and darkness of the real society, and showed his love for the motherland and confidence in the light.
As a product of medieval literature, Divine Comedy has a strong theological and religious color. In this sense, The Divine Comedy describes a symbolic story. A characters experience named Dante went to hell and purgatory, and finally arrived in heaven to meet God. Poetry shows obvious Christian thought, that is, in order to be saved, the world must overcome all kinds of temptations and repent its mistakes, so as to seek God's tolerance and enter heaven. And those who do evil are doomed to be punished forever in hell.
Dante's journey in poetry symbolizes the ups and downs of life. The punishment described in "Hell" is just to remind the world of the sinister reality. On the journey of life, we need the guidance of a wise teacher like Virgil, and more importantly, Beat's trance sustenance.
The whole poem consists of three volumes, each with 33 articles, plus 100 prefaces. The three volumes are Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The whole poem is written by three lines of rhyming verse tercets, with neat and symmetrical form and smooth and powerful rhythm. The repetition of "three" in The Divine Comedy symbolizes the thought of "trinity" in the western Christian tradition, and embodies the author's pursuit of peace, benevolence and the order of all things.