Dantesque


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of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings

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In the second, as other Dantesque images unfold--for example, "A Wild Rose open on the grass / Enormous" (2.12-13)--the narrator oscillates between experiencing his newly enlarged senses and trying to interpret those experience in the light of his habitual expectations.
(22) For a study on the eternity in Borges linked to the Dantesque vision of time cf.
His incisive details in portraying the gross motorcyclists is particularly Dantesque, and the strict demarcations between the "new city," the "old city," and at last the seashore suggest that the persona's spirit is taking bold strides toward a paradisaical zone.
Various features of this tavola have attracted critical attention (10); however, an interesting feature that has so far gone unnoticed is its potential Dantesque reference.
His journey at times seems Dantesque: he encounters two 'muses'--his Nanny and Michael Carosone, his then life partner, now husband and co-editor--who help him understand his inner and outer beauty.
C'etait une vision dantesque. Certains specialistes avaient qualifie ce phenomene de mini-tornade.
Like the several treatments of Aurora Leigh that have concentrated on matters of genre, Alison Milbank's "Eavesdropping from Casa Guidi Windows: Dantesque Overhearing in Victorian Poetry" (Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 35.4 [2013]: 385-97), attends to EBB's work for its uses of strategies of eavesdropping or overhearing important to Victorian dramatic monologues.
Indeed, it was this grotesque manual of Dantesque horrors that compelled Japanese soldiers hardly ever to surrender, until very late stages in the war.
OPINION POLLS, FOR POLITICIANS, ARE Dantesque in their nature.
On the way towards the desired "condition of complete simplicity" (Eliot 2002: 209), under the guidance of the Dantesque "eyes of a familiar compound ghost," (Eliot 2002: 204) the poetic self is always projecting his realization of the higher dream into an indefinite future: "We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time" (Eliot 2002: 209).
Les algues des cheveux des anses forment un filet piegeant qui ressemble aux herbes qui etouffent Jacopo del Cassero dans le Purgatoire de Dante : "Corsi alpalude, e le cannucce e il braco / M'impigliar si, ch'io caddi." (27) La comparaison nous rappelle que "Le Bateau ivre" est une oeuvre ou narrateur et lecteur se trouvent impigliati dans un dedale dantesque de mots et de flots.
A critical commonplace regarding Hemingway's short story is the appropriateness, Dantesque appropriateness if you will, of Harry's gangrene as emblematic of his desertion of his talent.
"La scene est choquante, c'est dantesque", a declare le president de la region de Galice, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, a la radio.