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Why does a cow moo. I don't know they just do.Dante's great move, putting the poet at the center of the poem and making an ordinary mortal's struggles to understand divine justice a suitable subject for epic, results in that curious deferral of the invocation of the Muse to Canto 2, after Canto 1's meditation on the mid-life crisis of the soul which brought the poet to this great effort. The introduction of Virgil as his guide sets up a pagan literary framework for his attempt, but when he turns toward the Divine Mystery of explaining the Inferno, he then invokes the Muse, specifically the Holy Spirit that animated the Apostle Paul. The pilgrim, "Dante," is tested like Aeneas as he confronts the souls of the Underworld.
Approximate Word count = 476
Approximate Pages = 1.9
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