Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...throughout the "Divina Commoedia" is the personal revelation which it signifies in the personal experiences of Dante. At the very outset, Dante is shown that he cannot take the direct route he had chosen, towards the light of God, because of the obstacles he had created through his own sin. Beatrice, later, reproaches him for losing his brilliant ideal, at her death, and falling into sin, such that he can find Heaven only through Hell. One of the great motifs of the poem lies in this fall of Dante, under the pressure of circumstances, from a high spiritual life...
...resting of the earth's shadow upon the first three planets, Dante shows with deep subtlety that the shadow of sin still rests upon the sinner no matter how well he may have shaken off his sin. In his description of the sun where the theologians dwell, Dante impresses the beautiful teaching of large hearted and Christian charity in judgment of our fellowmen. It is not for us but for God to judge...
...ante-Purgatorio," which Dante first reaches, is symbolic of tests of the sincerity, determination, and genuineness of purpose with which man sets out upon undertakings. It shows sin, paralyzing the will, contradicting divine order, and introducing disease into the character...
Three steps lead up to the gate of Purgatory--the white step, symbolic of the innocence and beauties in life, the black step, symbolic of life blasted by sin, and the red step, symbolic of the spirit of sacrificing love for ridding one's self of a sinful past...
...seven cornices on the mountain of Purgatory, up which the pilgrim must climb, are the sins of pride, envy, anger, gloomy indifference, avarice, lust, and gluttony. Pride is a sin against God, for it makes man self-centered. Envy is the evil eye that looks with malignant intent upon the more successful man. Gloomy indifference is that dangerous state of mind which leads one finally to embrace sin. Lust is the flame through which every man and woman must sometime pass,--namely, the desires of the flesh...