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 character named Dante is different from the author Dante's experience of going through hell, purgatory and finally reaching heaven to see 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.
Judging from the description of characters in Divine Comedy, it is closely related to the reality and history of Italy and the choice of life path, so it has a strong ideological connotation of criticizing reality and promoting justice. The Divine Comedy has unparalleled artistic achievements. Its structure is rigorous and its form and content are perfectly unified. 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.
Because Dante lived in the turbulent end of the Middle Ages, his Divine Comedy represented the highest achievement of medieval literature, and at the same time showed the ideological characteristics of the Renaissance. So he was called "the last poet in the Middle Ages" by Engels, and he was also the first poet in the new period.
It is true that Dante's Divine Comedy is the star of European literature.