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Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” is a set of three books detailing a character known as “Dante” travelling his way through the three levels of Alighieri’s afterlife: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Dante wants to get back on God’s path and rid himself all sin he might have. To help explain and tell this story, Alighieri uses lots of imagery and tells the story in a first person point of view. The imagery and first person point of view allows Alighieri to express his feelings of God more in depth to the reader while still expressing the themes of the book. In Inferno, Alighieri uses first person point of view and imagery to allow the reader to realize the idea that Dante is everyman and everyman needs to repent their sins just like Dante. The way Alighieri uses to …show more content…

Since Dante is now in Purgatory, he is starting to realize some of the things he has done and he is becoming grateful for the things he has. He is thankful for Virgil because “how could I have run my course without him?/ who would have led me up the mountainside?”(Canto III 5-6). This quote is showing the reader Dante’s progression as a person of God. Alighieri also uses the imagery to really show how Purgatory looks and how Dante might look. But he also lets the reader have an imaginations. This can be seen in a quote in Canto I. “but first see to it/ you bind a smooth green reed about his waist/ and clean his face of all trace of the pit” (Canto I 94-96). Once again, imagery is used and it creates an amazing image to help the reader see what is going on. Imagery can be used in a variety of ways like “four stars made his face glow/ with such a radiance that he looked to me/ as if he faced the sun” (Canto I 37-39) The imagery and point of view brings some light to important themes and quotes in Purgatorio just like Dante is bringing God into his life

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