ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Complete Control, Jacques Le Goff, Pietro Della Vigna
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Dante the pilgrim: universal everyman, historical individual, first verses of canto 1, universal and personal experience, personal experiences with reporcunctions of moral expectations. Dante the poet: the narrator, the author of the poem, dante is also seen as being outside the poem , presents the journey as true ^ The poem is about how the pilgrim becomes the poet. John freccero: the pilgrim"s view is lke our own view of history and of ourselves; confused, still in the making. The poet"s view is different, for it is global and comprehensive, the total view of a man who looks at the wprld, his neighbourhood, and indeed humself with all the detachment of a cultural anthropologist. The process of the poem, which is to say the progress of the pilgrim, is transformation of the problematic and humanistic into the certain and transcendent, from novelistic involvement to epic detachment.
