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Jiang insists that judging great poetry cannot be reduced to simple exposure, preservation, or citation, and he pushes the class toward a deeper criterion of recognition.
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Great poetry
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Jiang says the greatness of the Divine Comedy comes from truth and beauty, which move readers emotionally because the poem resonates with human experience.
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"Yeah, but so? We can read a lot of work, but how do we know what's great and what's not? If the world persists,..."
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"I think we'll just know if the work is great, we just know the work is great. Yeah, but how do we know? We..."
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"This is not a hard question, okay? Yes? It resonates with our experience. And what do we call this?"
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"Truth and beauty, right? You understand? Like if people read Divine Comedy and they think, oh my God, it made me cry. Oh my..."
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"...I'm not okay so what's really important is to appreciate that great poetry excites the imagination. It raises questions for us to ponder. And..."
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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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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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