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On Dante

On Dante
After having only read a small portion of Dante's great work, I can safely say that this will be both a challenging as well as gripping experience. The main issue I have run across so far in my reading involved sometimes losing track of what exactly it is that Dante is speaking of. Sometimes I find myself lost due to the extremely formal nature of the English translation. Once in a while I am forced to read the same sentence over and over and study the context in order to discern the meaning behind something. However, this is not always the easiest task considering Dante's polysemous intent for the poem. At other times, due to a lack of background knowledge on my part, I find myself reading the notes provided in the back of the book as well as doing a little research of my own to understand Dante' various allusions and references.
On the lighter side of things, I have found Dante's comedy to be an extremely clutching read. It is by far one of the most interesting......


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