Playing Around With The Sun: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 1 - 24
Dante and Virgil pass on beyond the envious along the second terrace of Purgatory proper. As we enter the first of the middle three canti of all of COMEDY, Dante is blinded by the sun, about as we're blinded by his increasingly complex poetics.These passages begin the brilliant fun of the second half of the poem. Dante begins to play with meaning, poetics, and metaphor as never before, challenging us and pushing us into a spot of disorientation, all the while bringing us to a spot of revelation.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we see the sun as never before in the opening lines of PURGATORIO…
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