The Lush Poetry Of The Lustful: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 25 - 51
Our pilgrim, Dante, turns from Minos to discover the hellish hurricane that's the punishment of lustful.It's hard to miss the lush language in this passage: verdant, almost overgrown, especially in a beautiful, double simile . . . which sets up the problems ahead.Who are the lustful? What is the root of their sin? And what is our poet up to with these grand similes?Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I try to answer some of these questions and begin to explore this second circle of hell with the pilgrim.Please consider supporting this work with a one-time donation or a small monthly stipend, using…
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