In Dante Aligheri’s Purgatorio from his epic poem The Divine Comedy , sinners on the third terrace are purged for their wrath with thick and heavy smoke, which can be deemed as appropriate to the sin through its symbolic use of the sin’s impact on the sinner, not to mention how it allows them to confront and to truly free themselves from their resentment. Dante, who has been introduced to the terrace, claims that there is nothing “so harsh to the senses as that smoke which covered [them] there that did not let the eye stay open.” In this case, the smoke can be illustrated as an object that obscures the vision, leading to one having to use their senses in order to assist them. This can be compared to living a hateful life as this rage figuratively