The returning force Dante feels before Beatrice, which Jiang links to lifelong fidelity rather than transient romantic possession.
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old love
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The quoted Beatrice passage presents her as a veiled figure crowned and color-coded in a flower cloud whose arrival reactivates Dante's old love at bodily and emotional depth.
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"...force That she could move I felt the mighty power of old love"
"As soon as that deep forest had struck my vision The power of that When I had not yet left my boyhood Had already..."
"...force that she could move, I felt the mighty power of old love. All right, so it's been decades since he last saw her,..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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