Tumbling Over A Simile About A Waterfall: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 91 - 105
We're going to slow up even more and take one long look at a very complicated fifteen lines that include a twelve-line simile about the waterfall ahead of us.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we walk passage by passage through Dante's masterwork, COMEDY. We're in the seventh circle of Inferno, in the second rung (or almost the third rung) of that circle and we have come to a passage that downshifts the narrative and allows the poet more freedom to step out from behind the curtain of his creation.But to get that freedom, he first has to marshall his poetic tools with this tour-de-force simile.Here…
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