Dante's "Divine Comedy"
From 1308 to 1321, Dante spent 13 years completing the masterpiece "Divine Comedy". In the poem, he devoted his infinite nostalgia and longing for the history and future of Italy, criticized the ugliness and darkness of the real society, and expressed his love for his motherland and his confidence in the light.
As a product of medieval literature, "The Divine Comedy" has a strong theological and religious overtones. In this sense, the Divine Comedy describes a symbolic story. A character named Dante has an experience different from the author Dante who travels through hell, purgatory and finally reaches heaven to see God. The poem shows obvious Christian ideas, that is, in order to be saved, people in the world must overcome various temptations and repent of their faults in order to seek God's tolerance and enter heaven. And those who do evil will be punished eternally in hell. Dante's journey in the poem symbolizes the ups and downs of life. The various punishments described in "Hell" are precisely to remind the world of the dangers of reality. On the journey of life, we need the guidance of a sage like Virgil, and even more, we need the ecstasy of Beatrice.
Judging from the description of the characters in "The Divine Comedy", "The Divine Comedy" has a close relationship with the reality and history of Italy, and has a close relationship with the choice of life path, so it has a strong criticism reality and the profound ideological connotation of promoting justice. The artistic achievement of "The Divine Comedy" is unparalleled. Its structure is rigorous, and its form and content achieve perfect unity. There are three volumes of poems, each with thirty-three cantos, plus a preface of one hundred cantos. The three volumes are respectively the three kingdoms of "Hell", "Purgatory" and "Paradise". The whole poem is written in rhyming verse tercets, a group of three lines, with a neat and symmetrical form and a steady and powerful rhythm. The repetition of "three" in the form of "The Divine Comedy" symbolizes the traditional Western Christian idea of ??"three in one" and embodies the author's ideal pursuit of peace, benevolence and the order of all things.