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Jiang says Dante's poetry is designed to be read and spoken aloud, so you cannot really understand it unless you hear it voiced.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "All right. Okay. Okay. Well, thanks so much for coming. And so, what we're going to do is maybe you'll read a tercet, and..."
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Jiang asks for the tercet to be reread slowly because cadence and fluctuation of sound are integral to understanding the poem.
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A student argues that the Italian sounds gentler and softer than the English, so it does not merely describe love but makes the listener feel it.
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The student highlights Dante's ABA-BCB end-rhyme pattern and sing-song movement as part of what English readers miss.
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Aurelia agrees that the Italian carries stronger sibilance and sonic texture than the English rendering.
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Jiang guesses Dante is trying to mirror the vibration of the universe, using lighter sounds for heaven and heavier or harder sounds for the lower realms.
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Aurelia agrees that the passage's language of desire and gladness makes it feel as if it is moving toward a climax.
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Aurelia says the Italian's overlapping sounds and the terza rima structure help the passage build toward a climax.
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"All right. Okay. Okay. Well, thanks so much for coming. And so, what we're going to do is maybe you'll read a tercet, and..."
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"...so we can catch the cadence, the sort of fluctuations in sound?"
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"Let me be honest. It sounds much more gentle, and it sounds much softer than the English. I'm going off vibe here, but what..."
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"Yeah, I would actually like maybe whenever to hear more, because we don't get the opportunity to take advantage of the end rhyme scheme,..."
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"I mean, I agree. I feel like there's something, like, very, like, the se. Could you talk? The se, like, there's a kind of,..."
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"...okay? So, obviously, in heaven, the vibrations are higher, okay? Lighter sounds. And then... In heaven, it's deeper, right? Slower vibrations, so harder sounds..."
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"moving towards a sexual climax i'm not sure if sexual but maybe i mean it's she's he's talking about desire right there's gladness like..."
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"...have I feel like meanings that come through they have similar sounds in English in Italian that don't come through in English so there's..."
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"there is something that's like moving towards something in just the"
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"...it's it's it's the voice that makes this divine right the sound that makes this truly divine and that's why we call this divine..."
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"So, it's a different, it's different than modern Italian. Like, it sounds more, it's, it's, it almost sounds like the dialect that you would..."
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"...uh, looking at the text, uh, in every terza, the last sound of the first sentence and the last sound of the last sentence..."
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