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Jiang says audiences trembled before Dante because hearing the poetry could feel like being seized by an angel conveying the beauty of God.
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Beauty of God
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...an angel has taken possession of you and conveying the beauty of God. How else can you explain this beauty, right? Okay, so let's..."
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A student answers that witnessing God's beauty and greatness directly is what gives Dante the courage to continue into exile.
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"...an angel has taken possession of you and conveying the beauty of God. How else can you explain this beauty, right? Okay, so let's..."
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"...because he witnessed the light and the greatness and the beauty of God with his own eyes, and that gives him the courage to..."
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"...you. Plus it makes you bow in humility towards the beauty of God. Like the minute you enter this hall of pictures and light..."
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"...If God is perfection, if God is love, if God is beauty, God would never require anything of you."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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