Use Of Imagery In Dante's Inferno

In Inferno Dante makes fantastic use of details and imagery, explaining his trip from circle to circle lower and deeper into the pits of hell that lead him to purgatory. Dante created this work to represent the journey from the soul to God in the afterlife. This piece was very well accepted in the sense that even though no original copy in Dante’s writing survived, hundreds of copies had already been found of it. Dante used representation of the Medieval view on the afterlife as it had developed in the Western church to write his epic. Although it is said that the original copy of The Divine Comedy was lost to time, you can purchase the paperback copies of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso at Amazon.com for $15.08. I originally chose to focus
on The Divine Comedy out of all Dante’s works because I am personally perplexed by the thought of hell and heaven. I think that Dante’s descriptions are truly amazing and fascinating.