Tone Of Dante's Divine Comedy
4. What is the tone of the poem?
Throughout the poem, Dante’s Divine Comedy, the author, Dante, portrays an emotional tone. Through Dante’s own struggles with sin and the suffering he endured himself, we can see him caring for other’s and deeply thinking about human’s moral thoughts. The poem is written in first person and through the poem, you see crying and high emotions. Because of Dante’s own struggles, he sympathizes with other sinners throughout the poem. Sympathy is another emotion Dante portrays in the poem, as well as, compassion, weeping and fainting. One example of compassion in the text is Canto II, lines 127-138,
“As little flowers from the frosty night are closed and limp, and when the sun shines down on them, they rise to
Throughout the poem, Dante’s Divine Comedy, the author, Dante, portrays an emotional tone. Through Dante’s own struggles with sin and the suffering he endured himself, we can see him caring for other’s and deeply thinking about human’s moral thoughts. The poem is written in first person and through the poem, you see crying and high emotions. Because of Dante’s own struggles, he sympathizes with other sinners throughout the poem. Sympathy is another emotion Dante portrays in the poem, as well as, compassion, weeping and fainting. One example of compassion in the text is Canto II, lines 127-138,
“As little flowers from the frosty night are closed and limp, and when the sun shines down on them, they rise to