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Jiang treats the siren dream as another vision sequence to be interpreted rather than as a merely decorative episode in the poem.
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Siren
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Jiang proposes that, within the class's running reading of the Divine Comedy, the siren can be read as Virgil himself seducing Dante through poetry and leading him astray.
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A student suggests the dream scene warns Dante not to become stillborn inside Virgil and reads the siren as a love left to fester and rot.
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A student adds that Beatrice asking Virgil to identify the siren suggests Virgilian possessive love is what beautifies the malformed woman by imagining possession.
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"all right let's keep on going canto 19. in that hour when the heat of day defeated by earth and sometimes saturn can no..."
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"pleasing siren who in mid -sea leads mariners astray there's so much delight in hearing me i turned aside ulysses although he had longed..."
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"...i'm so glad she's Because Donna is being seduced by the siren, the siren who seduced Ulysses. And then a woman barges in and..."
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"In our understanding of the divine comedy, who is the siren? Do you know what I mean? Okay, yeah, I know the siren is..."
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"...you would start to rot as a baby. And, um, the siren is like a love that has been left to fester. And that's..."
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"...think it's quite telling that Beatrice asked Virgil to identify the siren because it's kind of the love that we were talking about. That..."
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"Because Virgil should be the siren, but now there's another siren."
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"...a dream. So, so visualize this. Dante is staring at a siren. He's being seduced by the siren. Can you explain?"
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"...song that sung by those sweet instruments surpasses so our Muses sirens as first light does the light that is reflected just as concentric..."
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"...their triumph or follow them out with all my troops of sirens throwing the decks yes hard as it was to uproot them once..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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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