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of Dante’s Inferno)
As we all know, or at least should know by now, Dante Aligierhi
was a poet. Like any modern poet of his time, Dante was a deeply
religious man. Well at least to certain extents at least. Dante found
Christianity to be a source of inspiration for his poems. In the case of
the Inferno it is genuinely reflected in the way he wrote this divine
comedy.
He uses his own form of figurative language and a pattern of the
number three which represents the Holy Trinity in Christianity. It is uses
in the structure of the entire poem. Every verse is in several groups of
3. First of all, the verses all consist of three lines. Second of all, there
are three patterns of a rhyming system: 1.A-B-A 2.B-C-B and 3.C-D-C.
Each repeated letter represents where the rhyming words are. The
number three can also be found in the three different parts of the
comedy which are Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The number of
circles of hell is also a representation of the Holy Trinity. There are nine
circles and nine is a multiple of three. These forms of the number three
are just a few of the many ways we can find figurative language in
Dante’s Inferno.
Figurative Language is used all throughout Dante’s Inferno. It
would be nearly impossible to go through and show you every single
form of figurative language used in the entire comedy, so I’ll just show
you a few examples from Circles Six and Seven point one:
On line 71 of lines 70-74 on the same page and page 106 Dante, as the
author, uses another form of figurative language, personification, to ask
Virgil about the way the heretics are punished in circle 6:
72 and those who meet and clash with such mad howls
On line 3 of lines 1-3 on page 110, Dante uses Hyperbole to describe the
landscape of the plunge into the first round of circle seven: